Talk:Global Descriptor Table

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The contents of Local Descriptor Table was merged into Global Descriptor Table on September 2, 2014. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

Merging

Could I suggest this be merged into an article generally describing the IA-32 descripter tables, or one about memory protection? GDT is makes for a very short article, and theres a lot of other related stuff that would fit well into one article. Also I going to reference this article from the "IA-32 Intel(R) Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3A: System Programming Guide". This is pretty much a gospel source. Available as a PDF from Intel(R) website

Jatos 20:35, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to Merge. NukeofEarl (talk) 16:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I propose merging Local Descriptor Table with Global Descriptor Table, at least. The two data structures are nearly identical, so it would make things easier for everyone (readers and editors alike) to have one article for both. That way, there's no need to guess whether differences between the pages are due to omission/error, or represent actual differences between the two data structures. (Or, you know, to even look for differences between the articles.)

—SamB (talk) 18:29, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Citation

Citation 1 of the article is now a broken link. Does anyone have an active reference for it?

Pnorton4 (talk) 05:34, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]