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From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
References: <3eafd245$1_8 AT corp DOT newsgroups DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Help] Application Crashes ... due to SIGSEGV ...
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:29:25 +0200
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"Markus Meng" <meng DOT engineering AT bluewin DOT ch> said:

> However the application crashes as soon as some of the memory location
> 0x000D0000...0x000D0000 are being accessed.

You cannot access that mem-area directly as if it's part of you 
address space (it's not). That only works with DOS4GW types 
extenders where DOS-memory is mapped to application data
area.

But djgpp has near-ptr feature if you prefer to avoid using the
'far' functions. Enable it (read the docs on how), then access
the area like so:
  memcpy (dest, (const void*)(0x000D0000 + __djgpp_conventional_base), length)

But it pretty simple using the <sys/farptr.h> functions instead:
  dosmemget (0xD0000, dest, length);

The speed advantage of using near-ptr access (memcpy) is neglible
cause dosmemget() is pretty smart in moving those bytes. Even
faster than _dosmemgetl() even when src/dest are DWORD aligned.

--gv