Re: Limitations in FreeBSD

[Mike Smith]

> > That's correct; it's why the ia32 architecture has a '32' in its name.
> 
> I don't believe that's true.  I don't have any hard evidence within easy
> reach, but with the introduction of the Pentium, the address space was
> increased.  A user process, of course, can only have 4G of addressible
> space (32-bit addresses) but the OS can map pages of the 4G space into a
> larger area.
> 
> Something to do with 4MB pages instead of 4K pages.  
> 
> Again, I could be wrong on this one.

Think about it for a second.  How big is a pointer?

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