Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/11/12/09:42:12
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Joel Neys wrote:
> can anyone tell me how to get the 32-bit absolute physical memory
> location of a variable. I need this address to sent to a PCI-card which
> then on its turn dumps data in the PC's memory using the PCI fifo
> capability.
The FAQ describes two ways of doing this in section 18.14.
> Currently I found a work around using the DOS-memory location and then
> copy it to the applications memory. When running DOS + cwsdpmi it works,
> when running W95 it doesn't. The reason is, to my opinion, that W95
> enables paging while cwsdpmi doesn't.
What paging are you talking about? Both Windows 9X and CWSDPMI support
virtual memory, if that's what you had in mind.
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