Re: DOSMEM_MapRealToLinear vs. PTR_SEG_TO_LINEAR

[Ove Kaaven]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David Elliott wrote:

> Question:
> 
> Is there any function to take a Real memory address and convert it into
> a segmented pointer address suitable for use with PTR_SEG_TO_LINEAR?

If it was possible, it would probably be DPMI function 2, in msdos/dpmi.c
line 806, which, as you can see, is not very viable to use.

You'll probably have to allocate the selectors yourself, like everyone
else does...