Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/13/04:36:21
> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
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> > I think I understand dosmem{get|put}
> > but I don't exactly what selectors are, etc.
>
> You don't need the selectors that the above function returns. Just use
> dosmemget and dosmemput to move data from and to the allocated buffer.
> (Selectors are a protected-mode equivalent of the real-mode segments.
> You should get some book on protected-mode programming with Intel CPUs
> and read the first chapters which describe how x86 works in protected
> mode. This issue is too vast to describe in a post.)
>
Do you have a good suggestion ? Any particular book to recommend ?
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