Rob Landley wrote:
>
> Each user process has 32 bit pointers for memory. This means they only have
> 4 gigabytes of virtual address space, regardless of how many physical pages
> the machine has. The kernel doesn't use segment:offset addressing. It just
> uses the offset. Flat memory model.
>
And even if it did (on i386) it wouldn't help... the segment:offset is
folded into a single 32-bit space before paging.
-hpa
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