Segment registers?

[srod]

Hi,

as someone relatively new to assembly language programming, I'm busy reading and coding as much as I can and of course asking as many questions as I can in the hope of learning from you gurus around these parts!  :bg  At the moment, I'm wading through the second of the Intel software developers manual - which is a little heavy going!

There is something puzzling me a little at the moment, namely segment registers?  I think I understand their purpose in enabling us to separate code and data etc, but what I don't get is just how these registers impact me as an applications programmer?

As someone only ever programming for win 32, are they something I need to overly concern myself with? Or can I basically ignore them and continue learning about the basic instruction set and basic x86 architecture etc.

Thanks in advance.

Stephen.

[stanhebben]

In win32, all programs use flat segment code. That means that all segment registers point to the same segment, so you can ignore them.

[srod]

Huh, that simple!

Thanks, just what I needed.  :8)