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definition of mapping

definition of mapping

Posted Oct 12, 2007 17:17 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (subscriber, #5246)
In reply to: definition of mapping by giraffedata
Parent article: Memory part 3: Virtual Memory

Fair enough. I try to be precise myself when I can. I personally think of the three notions of "mapping" you have as "page mapping," "mapped range" and "memory map", though I can easily see imperfections in those names. :-)


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