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INT 2F PU - Borland C++ 3.0 DPMILOAD.EXE - ALLOCATE MEMORY
AX = FB42h
BX = 0002h
ES:SI -> memory block info (see below)
Return: ???
Note: The version of DPMILOAD distributed with BC++ v2.0 identifies itself
as version 1.000, while the version distributed with BC++ 3.0
identifies itself as version 1.0; the former is 10864 bytes, the
latter 22180 bytes.
SeeAlso: AX=FB42h/BX=0008h
Format of memory block info:
Offset Size Description
00h WORD flags
bit 0: set if data segment rather than code segment
bit 1: information valid
bit 2: set if DOS memory block rather than DPMI memory block
bit 4: ???
bit 15: set if no LDT selectors for memory block???
02h DWORD block size in bytes
---DPMI memory block---
06h DWORD DPMI memory block handle
---DOS memory block---
06h WORD real-mode segment of memory block
08h WORD selector of memory block
---
0Ah DWORD linear address of memory
0Eh WORD memory operation error code
0008h no more free LDT descriptors
---if flags bit 0 clear---
10h WORD code segment selector for memory block or 0000h or FFFFh
12h WORD data alias selector for memory block or 0000h or FFFFh
---if flags bit 0 set---
10h WORD data segment selector for memory block or 0000h or FFFFh
12h WORD unused???
See Also:
2FFB42
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