Physical addresses
A digital computer's main memory consists of many memory locations. Each memory location has a physical address which is a code. The CPU (or other device) can use the code to access … See more

Each memory location in a stored-program computer holds a binary number or decimal number of some sort. Its interpretation, as data of some data type or as an instruction, and use are determined by the instructions which retrieve and … See more

Many programmers prefer to address memory such that there is no distinction between code space and data space (see above), as well as from physical and virtual memory (see … See more

Most modern computers are byte-addressable. Each address identifies a single byte (eight bits) of storage. Data larger than a single byte may be stored in a sequence of consecutive addresses. There exist word-addressable computers, where the minimal … See more

A computer program can access an address given explicitly – in low-level programming this is usually called an absolute address, or … See more

• Base address
• Endianness
• Low-level programming language
• Memory address register
• Memory allocation See more