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From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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While reading file swtch.s, I see the following:

$_common_tssd
_tss_gdt
%fs:0

What is the usage of $ before a symbol (none before _tss_gdt)? What does
%fs:0 mean?

Thanks,

-Zhihui


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