From: locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: NT4 DPMI BUG (303h, Allocate Real-Mode Callback)--ATTN: DJ Deloie, Shawn Hargreaves, Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:38:00 -0600
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In article <82rhm3$sst$1 AT news DOT u-strasbg DOT fr>, muller AT ics DOT u-strasbg DOT fr 
says...
>   I used a simpler workaround :
> 
>   allocate space for the register in the v2prt0.as file
> (which is the Free Pascal equivalent of crt0.S)
> as this file is allways loaded first the address is allways below 
> the 64K limit and all works fine under NT !
>  
>   Having several different register structs has no point as 
> the values of the registers are only garantued inside the call !
> (See Ralph Brown Interrupt List !)

Unfortunately we cannot use this workaround without changing how the 
interface works (unless we just ignore the passed registers structure, 
which would be bad form, perhaps.. comments, Eli?).

>   By the way it would be great to notify Ralph Brown about this bug.

Hmm, good idea.  I'll do that.

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