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| | In this post, we are going to take a deep dive into pointer tagging, where metadata is encoded into a word-sized pointer. Doing so allows us to keep a compact representation that can be passed around in machine registers. This is very common in implementing dynamic programming languages, but can really be used anywhere that additional runtime information is needed about a pointer. We will look at a handful of different ways these pointers can be encoded and see how the compiler can optimize them for diff...
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| My Question Was Answered In the previous post I asked a question, and got an answer! My question was: "From what i've seen, linux executables are loaded into memory at 0x400000 (if someone knows why this is, please tell me!)"