Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:06:28 +0500 (MVT)
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 On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Groman wrote:

> How does DJGPP work with paging?
> If I don't use DPMI(it's a small kernel) and have paging enabled...
> how does DJGPP code react to that...
> 
> how does it formulate it's linear addresses...

Read the CWSDPMI sources. That should answer all your questions.

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/csdpmi4s.zip

> what precautions should I use...

Set PDEs and PTEs correctly.
Remember that MMU caches them and flush these when necessary.
I think these are the two important ones I can recall.