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As a curiosity, the first GDT entry must be `0x00` to make sure that the
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programmer didn't make any mistakes managing addresses.
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-Furthermore, since the CPU needs to know how long the GDT is, we'll use
+Furthermore, the CPU can't directly load the GDT address, but it requires
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a meta structure called the "GDT descriptor" with the size (16b) and address
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-(32b) of our actual GDT.
+(32b) of our actual GDT. It is loaded with the `lgdt` operation.
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Let's directly jump to the GDT code in assembly. Again, to understand
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all the segment flags, refer to the os-dev.pdf document. The theory for
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