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From: Elio Tondo <elio AT pvax DOT ico DOT olivetti DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Porting Watcom DPMI apps to GCC
Date: 5 Jun 1995 09:36:41 GMT
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bwh AT netcom15 DOT netcom DOT com (Brian Hook) wrote:

>One nice thing about DOS4GW is that by default DS is set to a base of
>0 and a limit of 4GB, meaning that linear addresses returned by DPMI
>function MapPhysicalToLinear can be used as near pointers without
>requiring an explicit selector initialization routine.  How does DJGPP
>compare in this regard?

This sounds very interesting with respect to the recent thread about
near pointers in a DJGPP DPMI environment. Can you give us more details
about how DOS4GW accomplishes this? Can you confirm that it is able to
get this kind of linear mapping under any DPMI 0.9 provider (like the
DOS box of Windows 3.x)?

Thanks
   Elio
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