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Subject: Re: How to align DOS memory block on page boundaries?
Date: 16 Aug 1998 19:07:30 GMT
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"GiedriusS"  wrote:
>I want to allocate memory block (in DOS memory) which would be aligned
>on page boundaries, but I don't know how. Yeah, I need such memory
>block for DMA transfers.

Put a 256 scratch-pad in front of your buffer.

	page  60,132
	title 1K page buffer
code	segment
	assume	cs:code, ds:code, ss:code, es:code
	org	0100h		;DOS .COM starts here
start:	mov	dx,OFFSET DMApg ;point to a 1Kbyte page
	sub	dl,dl
;note: cs:dx "now" points at a 1K page
	mov	ax,4C00h	;exit to DOS with return(0)
	int	21h
	db	256   dup (?)	;spill-over
DMApg:	db	1000 dup (?)	;DMA page may start in spill-over
code	ends
	end	start