The Intel x86 computer instruction set architecture has supported memory segmentation since the original Intel 8086 in 1978. It allows programs to address...

Memory segmentation is an operating system memory management technique of dividing a computer's primary memory into segments or sections. In a computer...

the jobstep borrowing the region terminates. Memory overcommitment Memory protection x86 memory segmentation Known as TSO regions Madnick, Stuart; Donovan...

computing, a segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) or access violation is a fault, or failure condition, raised by hardware with memory protection...

register The x86 architecture in real and virtual 8086 mode uses a process known as segmentation to address memory, not the flat memory model used in...

dynamic memory allocation can frequently be a source of bugs. These can include security bugs or program crashes, most often due to segmentation faults...

See x86 memory segmentation for details. saves RAM by moving the segment address, this allows short jumps that require fewer bytes. Within the x86 architectures...

microprocessor, with memory segmentation as a solution for addressing more memory than can be covered by a plain 16-bit address. The term "x86" came into being...

In computing, the x86 memory models are a set of six different memory models of the x86 CPU operating in real mode which control how the segment registers...

virtual memory and physical memory than was possible on its 32-bit predecessors, allowing programs to store larger amounts of data in memory. x86-64 also...

x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU. In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved...

a different segment than the current code segment) which uses x86 memory segmentation and the resulting lack of portability it causes, and the existence...

non-hardware-assisted x86 virtualization solutions combined paging and segmentation because x86 paging offers only two protection domains whereas a VMM, guest...

rings. The x86 architecture has multiple segmentation features, which are helpful for using protected memory on this architecture. On the x86 architecture...

available address space. x86-64 is a 64-bit extension of x86 that almost entirely removes segmentation in favor of the flat memory model used by almost all...

Long mode RAM limit Transient Program Area (TPA) Upper memory area (UMA) x86 memory segmentation 3 GB barrier Norton, Peter (1986). Inside the IBM PC,...

ultimately sacrificing performance. Call gate (Intel) Memory segmentation Protected mode – available on x86-compatible 80286 CPUs and newer IOPL (CONFIG.SYS...

on most architectures these are much rarer than segmentation faults, which occur primarily due to memory access violations: problems in the logical address...

architecture Uniform memory access (UMA) Universal memory Video memory von Neumann architecture X86 memory segmentation "Memory Architectures: Harvard...

Extended memory (XMS) High memory area (HMA) Overlay (programming) Upper memory area (UMA) Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS) x86 memory segmentation Address...

system's kernel. In CPUs implementing the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) for instance, the memory paging is enabled via the CR0 control register...

language Memory address register Memory allocation Memory management unit (MMU) Memory model (programming) Memory protection Memory segmentation Offset...

In terms of the x86 architecture, general protection faults are specific to segmentation-based protection when it comes to memory accesses. However...

version with an 8-bit bus. 286 first x86 processor with protected mode including segmentation based virtual memory management. Performance improved by...

AVR, H8/300, Altera Nios/Nios II, System/370, System 390, X86 and its 64-bit extension X86-64, IA-64 "Itanium", Motorola 68000, MIPS, PA-RISC, PowerPC...

all other iRMX variants is the support for address segments (see x86 memory segmentation). The original 8086 family of processors relied heavily on segment...

support memory address spaces larger than the native size of the internal address register would allow, early CPUs implemented a system of segmentation whereby...

x 1 byte). This address space is addressed by means of internal memory "segmentation". The data bus is multiplexed with the address bus in order to fit...

structure used by Intel x86-family processors starting with the 80286 in order to define the characteristics of the various memory areas used during program...

mode is memory addressing which is totally different between protected mode and real mode. As mentioned, by working under VM86 mode the segmentation mechanism...