I actually added detail that wasn’t already discussed in the article?
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just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago[deleted]
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
AlphaAutist@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I actually didn’t know that about addressing before your comment and so I found it very interesting, thanks
Technus@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Some applications use those unused bits to add tags to pointers but it’s important to mask those out before attempting to dereference the address. I’m not sure about ARM but x86-64 requires bits 49-63 to be copies of bit 48 (kinda like sign-extension), ironically to ensure that no one is using those bits to store extra data.
b34k@lemmy.world 1 week ago
[deleted]just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
[deleted]Technus@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Jesus Christ, what crawled up your ass and died?
mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
[deleted]xyz1195@lemmy.world 1 week ago
that was a nice chuckle.ty
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think they were just adding to the conversation