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The document discusses the flat memory model used for 32-bit Windows programs. It has a single segment containing both code and data within a 4GB range, differing from earlier 16-bit models with 64KB segments. Segment registers are automatically set to the same value, so segment/offset addressing is not used. The flat model defaults to NEAR code and data addressing within 4GB, and the FS and GS segments are mainly used by the operating system.

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The document discusses the flat memory model used for 32-bit Windows programs. It has a single segment containing both code and data within a 4GB range, differing from earlier 16-bit models with 64KB segments. Segment registers are automatically set to the same value, so segment/offset addressing is not used. The flat model defaults to NEAR code and data addressing within 4GB, and the FS and GS segments are mainly used by the operating system.

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Flat memory Model


A program written in native 32 bit Windows format is created in what is called FLAT memory
model which has a single segment that contains both code and data. The programs must be run
on a 386 or higher processor.

Differing from earlier 16 bit code that used combined segment and offset addressing with a
64k segment limit, FLAT memory model works only in offsets and has a range of 4 gigabytes.
This makes assembler easier to write and the code is generally a lot faster.

All segment registers are automatically set to the same value with this memory model and this
means that segment / offset addressing must NOT be used in 32 bit programs that run in 32 bit
Windows.
For programmers who have written code in DOS, a 32 bit Windows PE executable file is
similar in some respects to a dos COM file, they have a single segment that can contain both
code and data and they both work directly in offsets, neither use Segment / Offset addressing.

The defaults in flat-model programs are NEAR code addressing and NEAR data addressing
within the range of 4 gigabytes.

The FS and GS segment registers are not normally used in application programs but are used
in some instances by the operating system.

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