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In article <1992Sep4.065429.25559@zooid.guild.org> ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
}cambler@zeus.calpoly.edu (Christopher J. Ambler, Phish) writes:
}>I'm looking for an XMS memory manager package that can make XMS available
}>to the heap via malloc() or new calls transparently. Protected mode
}>interfaces do not qualify for my application.
}
}Protected mode interfaces are really your only choice to do this
}transparently.

You can do it at least semi-transparently in C++; there's a virtual array
class on SIMTEL20, though I forget the name.

}The problem is that XMS memory isn't in the 8086's addressing space,
}so you can't access it directly in real mode, only through handles and 
}XMS service requests.  It is in theory possible to write a compiler
}that could hide all this for you, and I believe MAC compilers do

It's already been done for EMS with a special pointer type (Zortech C and
I believe MS C 7.0), and shouldn't be much more complex for XMS.

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