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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•18 days agoPointers are ackshully 48 bits on amd64 (which is most PCs and servers)
minus-square@embed_melink5•edit-218 days agoI was mostly joking about a stray pointer of type uint32_t* So the size of the pointer itself doesn’t matter
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•18 days 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.