Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/07/23/02:48:19
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> > I'm not sure. Maybe only inside the function that could potentially
> > access such areas.
>
> But if the BIOS font might be in the HMA, then surely there are all
> sorts of other things that could be there.
In practice, there are no other cases that programs crash because
accessing HMA. And I believe A20 is on in most (all?) machines anyway
(see my other mail). I wouldn't suggest to complicate every program
by calls to an XMS driver, unless there's a really good reason.
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