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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: looking for >32-bit address space
Message-ID: <16932@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 89 06:04:25 GMT
References: <1032@myrias.UUCP> <650010@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Reply-To: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <650010@hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>> >HP has been shipping 64 bit virtual address machines....

>Well, it's true that declaring a pointer the usual way yields a 32-bit
>pointer (a short pointer), but it's possible to declare full 64-bit
>pointers and manipulate them as such. Yes, the address space is segmented
>into 4GB segments, so no single object can be larger than 4GB (32 bits).

Can you say what the C declaration is, that yields a 64-bit pointer?
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