Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:18:23 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Problem using inline assembly
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, dac wrote:

> I've tried to make this little program which uses BIOS service
> 0xe820 to get the memory map, but my structure isn't filled...

See sections 18.2 and 18.5 of the DJGPP FAQ list.  In a nutshell: your
structure lives in extended memory, but BIOS functions can only access
the first 1MB of the address space (a.k.a. conventional memory).  So
you need to move data to and from the conventional memory using the
transfer buffer.