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From: Laurentiu Badea <bytemare AT lmn DOT pub DOT ro>
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Subject: Re: allocating dos memory
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 17:03:52 +0200
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Laurentiu Badea wrote:
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> patrick fox wrote:
> >
> > When allocating a block of dos memory in djgpp, is there a way to force
> > djgpp to not cross a page boundary (dos pages (0x00000 0x10000 0x20000
> > etc.)? I need this for allocating a dma buffer.
> 
> alloc twice as needed if you have mem to spare.

Of course I meant alloc two "pages" for having at least one aligned.

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