convert virtual address to physical address

[Krishna Sagiraju]

hai,

can we convert virtual address to physical address using c/c++ ?

thanx

Krishna

[jacob navia]

In general you do not have any access to physical memory under modern
OSes (linux/windows)

You can access physical memory only through a device driver.

[Mark McIntyre]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:20:08 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Krishna Sagiraju
<sa******@gmail.com> wrote:

hai,

can we convert virtual address to physical address using c/c++ ?

This is not a C question, its an OS question. Even if it were possible,
then any function to do so would be OS specific and therefore not part of
Standard C.
You'll need to ask in a group specialising in your hardware.

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[Malcolm]

"Krishna Sagiraju" <sa******@gmail.com> wrote

can we convert virtual address to physical address using c/c++ ?

The whole point of virtual addresses is that C and C++ programs can't mess
with them to get to the underlying physical memory.
However your compiler may ship with a library that provides translation
functions, and it will certainly provide an inline assembler, so if user
programs are allowed to do the translation at all it should be possible.