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From: Todd David Rudick <rudick AT CS DOT Arizona DOT EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: Trapping access to memory...
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 17:48:31 -0700
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On 19 Jul 1995, Malcolm Taylor wrote:

> The trapping that GO32 does is on the 4Kb page boundaries. The processor 
> will automatically cause a page fault if an access is to a 4Kb page that 
> has the not present bit set. GO32 does not supply any services for a 
> program to handle page exceptions itself, and it would be pretty hairy 
> trying to change GO32 to do it as you would have to deal with locking 
> pages for you page fault handler etc.

  don't the svga libraries handle bank swiching with page faults? The 
answer must be in the source code for the graphics libraries...

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                           |   Todd David Rudick   |
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