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Re:Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99 by fulafel on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:22AM (#24501162)
Also it's 48-bit just on current amd64 chips, it's not an architectural amd64 property - your binary is compatible with >48bit VA space of the future (unless you yourself misguidedly bake the 48-bit assumption into it). But I guess the point was to point out lower bounds.
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Re:Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99 by moonchild on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:01AM (#24501912)
Right; hence the mention of intel 5-level paging with 56-bit virtual address space.
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