From:	Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: dos memory alignment
Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:32:56 +0100
Organization:	University of Ghent, Belgium
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jyoun AT user2 DOT teleport DOT com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know how to allocate 64k of dos memory aligned on a
> 64k page boundary?  I have look through the dpmi functions but
> couldn't find anything relevent.

First a question: why would you want to do that? To what purpose?

Secondly, it is not directly possible to allocate onto a 64k page.
What you could do is allocating a block just large enough so that the
next block you will allocate is on a 64k boundary. Then you can free the
first block. But I can think of some problems, like the allocation
strategy.

But it seems to me that you want to do something that just creates a
problem while that isn't necessary?

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