Keywords: SegmentDescriptor.svg Segment descriptor format for a protected mode segment descriptor on 286-compatible CPUs The italic fields are added in the 32-bit protected mode of the 80386 processor<br /> S System segment 0 System 1 code or data DPL Descriptor privilege level P Segment present A Freely available for use by system software DB Default operand size 0 16 bit 1 32 bit G Granularity of segment limit 0 segment limit counts bytes 1 segment limit counts 4-KiB units Type Describes what type a segment is Such as if it is a code segment or not OR whether it is operating under read write or execute privileges etc selfmade work 2007-01-24 Lars H Rohwedder User RokerHRO selfmade work Intel microprocessors Operating systems |