Describe segmentation-based virtual memory. You should consider the components of a memory address, the segment table and its contents, and how the final physical address is formed...

      

Describe segmentation-based virtual memory. You should consider the components of a
memory address, the segment table and its contents, and how the final physical address is
formed in your answer

  

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Faith
Segmentation-based virtual memory is a scheme supporting the user view of memory, that is, a program
is divided into segments such as main(), function(), stack etc. A segmented memory address is
distinguished by its segment number and offset. The segment table has a base (starting PADDR where
a segment resides) and limit (length of the segment) column – physical addresses are formed by
coalescing base and limit registers.
Titany answered the question on April 26, 2022 at 12:05


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