LInear Addresses

Applications Programming
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Hi all,
Even after reading many explanation the question still haunting me what's the difference between physical and linear addresses.Can we directly access physical addresses .If not then paging circuitry would have ensure contiguous physical addresses regardless of any linear addresses but this is not the case.

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Yes you can load programs directly into memory using physical addresses. This is referred to as absolute addresssing mode. Try obtaining the instruction set manual for your processor which should explain how to go about doing this. Also I recommend reading "Structured Computer Organization" by Andrew Tanenbaum.

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thanks for support