Klaymore@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 6 months agoHappens all the timesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1519arrow-down17
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minus-squarecrispy_kilt@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoPointers are ackshully 48 bits on amd64 (which is most PCs and servers)
minus-square___qwertz___@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoWell ackshully newer CPUs support 5-level-paging which uses 56 bits.
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-26 months agoI was mostly joking about a stray pointer of type uint32_t* So the size of the pointer itself doesn’t matter
Pointers are ackshully 48 bits on amd64 (which is most PCs and servers)
Well ackshully newer CPUs support 5-level-paging which uses 56 bits.
I was mostly joking about a stray pointer of type uint32_t*
So the size of the pointer itself doesn’t matter