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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: john kismul <john DOT kismul AT bergen DOT mail DOT telia DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:13:05 +0000
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Subject: Re: MOVEDATA question
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john kismul <john DOT kismul AT bergen DOT mail DOT telia DOT com> very lost wrote ;-)

> I've allocated some memory and I've got the selector for it. Then I want
> to move some of the allocated memory to a variable.
How did you allocated it, with malloc the dpmi functions?

> Doing something like this:
> 	movedata(source_selector,0,_my_ds(),&int_variable,2);
> 
> I get an General Protection Fault and a Call frame traceback error, and
> my program exits with an error code of 255.
Let me see:
How did you got source_selector? I think your error is there.
 
> However, if I do something like this:
> 	movedata(_my_ds(),0,my_ds(),&int_variable,2);
> Everything works OK.
Ok?! it doesn't work at all, even more, you are using a NULL pointer.

Please give more details on how did you got the memory and selector.
And why you can't use malloc.

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