Date:	Wed, 10 May 2000 08:23:31 -0400 (EDT)
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From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To:	"AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: __dpmi_paddr and DJGPP pointers
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> From: "AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:09:38 GMT
> 
> > An "easy" question but I'm not 100% sure how to tackle it.
> >
> > How do you convert a __dpmi_paddr structure into a void*
> > pointer??
> >
> > ie.
> >
> > struct __dpmi_paddr{
> >    short selector;
> >    int offset32;
> > };
> 
> ...
> struct __dpmi_paddr dpaddr;
> void *foozle = (void *)  &dpaddr;

I don't think this is what the original poster wanted.  I think he
wanted a way of converting the selector:offset32 pair into a pointer
that can be dereferenced to get at the data at that address.

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