Global Descriptor Table: Difference between revisions

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The first entry in the '''GDT''' (Entry 0) should always be null and subsequent entries should be used instead.
 
Entries in the table are accessed by '''Segment Selectors''', which are either loaded into '''[[Segmentation]]''' registers either by assembly instructions or by hardware functions such as '''[[Interrupts]]'''.
 
== Segment Descriptor ==
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