Klaymore@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 4 months agoHappens all the timesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarecrispy_kilt@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoPointers are ackshully 48 bits on amd64 (which is most PCs and servers)
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agoI was mostly joking about a stray pointer of type uint32_t* So the size of the pointer itself doesn’t matter
minus-square___qwertz___@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoWell ackshully newer CPUs support 5-level-paging which uses 56 bits.
Pointers are ackshully 48 bits on amd64 (which is most PCs and servers)
I was mostly joking about a stray pointer of type uint32_t*
So the size of the pointer itself doesn’t matter
Well ackshully newer CPUs support 5-level-paging which uses 56 bits.