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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

So the size of the pointer itself doesn't matter