Assembly executing a long jump with an offset with different syntax

Question

I am writing a GDT for a Kernel and all is going well, I\'m following this tutorial.

http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/Docs/gdt.htm

When link the C code to the

Answer 1

In addition to Michael's answer, which definitely out-informs mine, this would be my translation:

.global gdt_flush

gdt_flush:
   movl 4(%esp),%eax
   lgdt (%eax)

   movw $0x10, %ax
   movw %ax, %ds
   movw %ax, %es
   movw %ax, %fs
   movw %ax, %gs
   movw %ax, %ss
   jmp  $0x08,$flush

flush:
   ret