Re: [linux-india-programmers] Re: [LI] struct task

[Joseph Bill <billbose@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:

> You'll have to get upto speed on Linux memory management. It divides
> the 2**32 address space into two ranges - (user, kernel) = (0-3GB, 3-4GB) 
> 
> So all kernel addresses are of the format 0xcxxxxxxx and among user
> addresses, shared libs are normally mapped in at 0x4xxxxxxx and text 
> and data are normally at 0x8xxxxxxx. This is just a convention.

Sorry to ask the following question, since I am a newbie to C.
I know that linux doesn't support more than 1GB of physical memory 
currently. If so how come what u said above is possible ?

Regards,
- Joseph

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