Base address

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

In computing, a base address denotes a memory address serving as a reference point ("base") for other addresses. To specify an absolute address, the relevant base address is added to an offset (aka displacement). This way of determining a memory address is called relative addressing.

[edit] See also


 This computer hardware-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../b/a/s/Base_address.html"