Logical vs. Physical
–Logical address – generated by the CPU; also referred to as virtual address
–Physical address – address seen by the memory unit
The concept of a
logical address space that is bound to a
separate physical address space is central to proper
memory management
separate physical address space is central to proper
memory management
–Logical address – generated by the CPU; also referred to as virtual address
–Physical address – address seen by the memory unit
•Logical and physical
addresses are the same in compile-time and load-time address-binding schemes;
logical (virtual) and physical addresses differ in execution-time address-binding scheme
logical (virtual) and physical addresses differ in execution-time address-binding scheme
•Logical address space is the set of all
logical addresses generated by a program
•Physical address space
is the set of all
physical addresses generated by a program




