From: malcolmj7 AT aol DOT com (MalcolmJ7) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Spawning to physical memory Lines: 6 Message-ID: <1998050401535500.VAA00298@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder01.news.aol.com Date: 04 May 1998 01:53:55 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Is there a way that i can spawn a real mode program, into extended memory? i have tried spawnx, and system but none of those work. Is there a way? Malcolm Malcolm malcolmj7 AT aol DOT com members is >32 bits for efficiency. Shorts get padded to 32 bits, hence you have >4 extra bytes because you have 2 shorts in your struct. The "packed" >attribute should prevent this, but at the moment I don't recall the >correct usage. You can use the '__attribute__ ((packed))' thingy on individual members OR on the entire struct, but the syntax for the latter escapes me at this time...