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Happens all the time (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by Klaymore@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Pointers are ackshully 48 bits on amd64 (which is most PCs and servers)

[–] ___qwertz___@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago

Well ackshully newer CPUs support 5-level-paging which uses 56 bits.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was mostly joking about a stray pointer of type uint32_t*

So the size of the pointer itself doesn't matter