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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 10/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:37:51AM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Wouldn't this be ending up mixing the actual segment register and
> segment register overrides? I plan to have a function that parses the
> segment override prefixes and returns SEG_REG_CS/DS/ES/FS/GS or
> SEG_REG_IGNORE for long mode or SEG_REG_DEFAULT when the default segment
> register needs to be used. A separate function will determine what such
> default segment register is. Does this make sense?

Yes.

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