allocated object address as high as 46th bit (i.e in the 131072 GB range)

mw m at g.c
Mon Oct 9 06:21:17 UTC 2023


On Monday, 9 October 2023 at 05:57:47 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
> As far as I'm aware, no cpu that you can get ahold of support 
> more than 48bit of address space at the hardware level.
>
> There is simply no reason at this time to support more, due to 
> the fact that nobody has implemented anywhere near that maximum.
>
> Also worth noting, the address a block of memory is, has no 
> relation to the hardware. A kernel will instruct the cpu to map 
> it wherever it pleases per process.

Thanks for the info. I'm surprised that kernel set virtual space 
that high.


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