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Chapter Three80x86 Microprocessor80x86微处理器（4） 8086 Segment Registers The 8086 has four special segment registers: cs, ds, es, and ss. These stand for Code Segment, Data Segment, Extra Segment, and Stack Segment, respectively. These registers are all 16 bits wide. They deal with selecting blocks (segments) of main memory. A segment register (e.g., cs) points at the beginning of a segment in memory.(???) Segments of memory on the 8086 can be no larger than 65,536 bytes long. This infamous “64K segment limitation” has disturbed many a programmer. We’ll see some problems with this 64K limitation, and some solutions to those problems, later. 8086 Segment Registers The cs register points at the segment containing the currently executing machine instructions. The data segment register, ds, generally points at global variables for the program. The extra segment register, es, is exactly that – an extra segment register. The ss register points at the segment containing the 8086 stack. The stack is where the 8086 stores important machine state information, subroutine return addresses, procedure parameters, and local variables. In general, you do not modify the stack segment register because too many things in the system depend upon it. 8086 Segment Registers Although it is theoretically possible to store data in the segment registers, this is never a good idea. The segment registers have a very special purpose – pointing at accessible blocks of memory. Any attempt to use the registers for any other purpose may result in considerable grief. 8086 Special Purpose Registers There are two special purpose registers on the 8086 CPU: the instruction pointer (ip) and the flags register. You do not access these registers the same way you access the other 8086 registers. Instead, the CPU generally manipulates these registers directly. The ip register contains the address of the currently executing instruction. This is a 16 bit register which provides a pointer into the cu