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Dr. Chocolate
Dr. Chocolate

Reputation: 2165

In a byte addressed space with 32bit addressing, it takes up 32bits of memory to reference 8 bits?

In a byte addressed space with 32bit addressing, it takes up 32bits of memory to reference 8 bits?

So the addressing is the major portion of Memory?

Am I conceptualizing this correctly?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 117

Answers (1)

Catfish_Man
Catfish_Man

Reputation: 41801

No. It takes 32 bits to reference a contiguous region of any size. If you have a 1 megabyte buffer, you're not going to store a pointer to every byte inside it, you'll just store a pointer to the beginning of it.

Upvotes: 4

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