Enum SegmentRegister

pub enum SegmentRegister {
    Code,
    Data,
    Stack,
    Extra,
    ExtraF,
    ExtraG,
}

Available on x86 or x86-64 only.

Standard segment registers (CS, DS, SS, etc.), which contain Selectors.

Variants

Code

CS register, which controls instruction loading

Data

DS register, which controls the default segment for load/store instructions

Stack

SS segment register, which controls the location of the stack pointer and stack push and pop instructions.

Extra

ES segment register, which can be used as an additional data segment.

ExtraF

FS segment register, which can be used as an additional data segment.

ExtraG

GS segment register, which can be used as an additional data segment.

Implementations

impl SegmentRegister

pub fn get(self) -> Selector

Retrieve the current value of this register

pub unsafe fn set(self, selector: Selector)

Update the register with the provided selector value.

Safety

This register fundamentally affects memory accesses and can have an impact on memory safety.