Virtual address space
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virtual-address-space-178-18541324
title:
Virtual address space
text:
In computing, a virtual address space (VAS) or address space is the set of ranges of virtual addresses that an operating system makes available to a process. The range of virtual addresses usually starts at a low address and can extend to the highest address allowed by the computer's instruction set architecture and supported by the operating system's pointer size implementation, which can be 4 bytes for 32-bit or 8 bytes for 64-bit OS versions. This provides several benefits, one of which is se
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Set of ranges of virtual addresses
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_address_space
date created:
2004-08-27T10:22:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T21:11:46Z
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