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An addressing mode specifies how to calculate the effective memory address of an operand by using information held in registers and/or constants contained within a machine instruction or elsewhere. In computer programming, addressing modes are primarily of interest to those who write in assembly languages and to compiler writers.
The mode gets its name from the fact that addresses in real mode always correspond to real locations in memory. Real mode is characterized by a 20-bit segmented memory address space (giving 1 MB of addressable memory) and unlimited direct software access to all addressable memory, I/O addresses and peripheral hardware. Real mode provides no ...
In real mode, in order to calculate the physical address of a byte of memory, the hardware shifts the contents of the appropriate segment register 4 bits left (effectively multiplying by 16), and then adds the offset. For example, the logical address 7522:F139 yields the 20-bit physical address:
In computing, protected mode, also called protected virtual address mode, [1] is an operational mode of x86-compatible central processing units (CPUs). It allows system software to use features such as segmentation, virtual memory, paging and safe multi-tasking designed to increase an operating system's control over application software.
On traditional architectures, an instruction includes an opcode that specifies the operation to perform, such as add contents of memory to register—and zero or more operand specifiers, which may specify registers, memory locations, or literal data. The operand specifiers may have addressing modes determining their meaning or may be in fixed ...
The "mod" field specifies the addressing mode for the register/memory ("r/m") operand. If the "mod" field is 11 2, the "r/m" field encodes a register in the same manner as the "reg" field. However, if the "mod" field is anything else (00 2, 01 2, or 10 2), the "r/m" field specifies an addressing mode. The interpretation of these five bits ...
PDP-11 processor speed varies by model, memory configuration, op code, and addressing modes. Instruction timings have up to three components, fetch/execute of the instruction itself and access time for the source and the destination. The last two components depend on the addressing mode.
A modern x86 CPU may use more than 4 GB of memory, either utilizing the native 64-bit mode of x86-64 CPU, or the Physical Address Extension (PAE), a 36-bit addressing mode. In such a case, a device using DMA with a 32-bit address bus is unable to address memory above the 4 GB line.