So.
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 11:20
What's the point of segmented memory addressing?
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 11:24
I'd argue that the main point oSIGSEGV
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 11:45
That's a good question that has always been in the back of my mind since programming in 386 and 486 assembly.
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 12:03
I find it a waste of time, just like OO design. A good programmer doesn't need that kind of protection. It just slows things down
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 12:04
>>4
Disregard that, i suck cocks.
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 12:25
It's so you can access more than 65KB of memory, when you're using 16-bit pointers.
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Peter Howard Bauss
2009-06-04 13:27
It's just technical mumbo jumbo. We don't need it in our final product. I reassign 80% of your budget to marketting .
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 13:54
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 15:05
It allows you to convert a big process into smaller segments so it can fit into the a fragmented memory.
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Anonymous
2009-06-04 16:09
Security, too. Don't fucking want any program you write to have access to kernel memory space. Plus other stuff about stack/text/bss/heap spaces. IT JUST IS OKAY
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Anonymous 2011-02-03 0:33