Date:	Thu, 3 Jun 93 22:22:15 EDT
From:	peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	DPMI support (fwd)

> There is no direct way (without inline assembler) to access the low 1
> Meg directly with pointers.  This is a price you pay with DPMI 0.9.
> Unless someone wants to teach GCC about the concept FAR ...

In most cases, the only need for access to the low 1 Meg is for writing to the
screen, but a lot of programs will need this.  Would it be possible to write
some preprocessor macros which would produce the inline assembler code to
access the screen?

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