Mastering Assembly Programming
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Remaining bits

The remaining 20 bits of the EFlags register are not that important for us while in user-land except, probably, the ID bit (bit #21). The ID flag indicates whether we can or cannot use the CPUID instruction.

Bits 32 - 63 of the RFlags register in long mode would be all 0s.