[M3devel] LONGADDRESS [was: Re: Downsides of Modula-3 ?]

[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 01:34:08PM -0500, felipe valdez wrote:
> English, here, is the keyword.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org> wrote:
> 
> > Daniel,
> >
> > On LINUXLIBC6 ADDRESS type is 32bit, 4byte. On AMD64_DARWIN it's 64bit,
> > 8byte. Most 64bit platforms today are limited in number of address lines
> > from CPU to memory,

The rest can still be used within the processor for addressing virtual 
memory, which can be mapped to physical memory in a bewildering variety 
of ways, and can exceed physical RAM.

-- hendrik