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From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Page Boundaries
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:21:24 -0300
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Steve Carter wrote:

> Anyone know how to allocate a page of memory, aligned to the page
> boundary?  It would be a shame to allocate 128k to just use 64.  This is
> for DMA to my soundcard, so it's a problem that must have been solved
> umpteen times.

I need to know that too.  I want to use __djgpp_map_physical_memory, but it
says I need a page-aligned data-block.  What is page-aligned and how to I
create/calculate a page-aligned address.

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