From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: cwsdpr0.exe 4/15/99
Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:41:20
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> So. May I make a bold conclusion that,  in cwsdpmi.exe, the linear address
> will always equal  the physical address even after going through the page
> directory and page table stuff (as you guys put it: it is the way set up by
> the dpmi host)? 

No, the pages get re-arranged all over the place when demand paging happens.
And the base load point is typically at 0x10000000 for the base of memory.
If you really want to understand what's going on, you have to look at the
page tables themselves, which you can get to under cwsdpmi.

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