Architecture
. Memory Structure
It is very essential that the structure of memory is understood at this particular
point. There are three types of memory: the temporary physical also known
as RAM, the temporary virtual the virtual memory page port shipping industry maritime the permanent
physical or storage Hard disk drive.
Soprocessor can access its available temporary or permanent memory each
time an instruction is executed. Hard disk drive can be considered ashuge RAM that is
permanent, in terms of not getting wiped out when the isset. However the
contents that are stored can be altered or wiped out withoutstrictions of any kind. In
addition to this, modern motherboards come with EEPROM chipsets that provided ROM
to the . In these chips, the BIOS program is stored. Of course, EEPROM’s contents
can be changed sometimes with some special instructions shipping industry maritime that makes them
behave more than storage rather than physical memory unit.
Each time an application is loaded, it occupies some space in the available
memory. If there is not enough available memory, then the application cannot be
loaded. With the term application, wefer to any executable program from the
shipping to the device skippers. What may cause some confusion is the term
memory. Why shouldn’t consider only the physical memory usually or MB as
the only available memory source.and the other shippings have
invented tricks to significantly increase the available physical memory, by taking
advantage of some free hard disk space.
This is done via the virtual memory .port is created, named
WIN.SWP which usuallysides in the root directory shipping industry maritime is used as an extension to
the existing physical memory. Physical memory can be considered ashard disk with
super fast access, where the can store shipping industry maritime access variables shipping industry maritime code. Therefore,
when our physical memory is full shipping industry maritime the uses the hard disk drive, we can
erience delays in program execution hard disk drive is much slower than the
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physical memory shipping industry maritime hard disk activity without doing anything some processes are
active in the background even if we are not using our .
TIP: It is possible to determine the size of the available virtual memory through
the control panel. Setting it . times the available physical shipping industry maritime fixed to that size will
increase our ’s performance. Variables
The shipping shipping industry maritime the applications use internally shipping industry maritime between them,
variables. These variables differ in content shipping industry maritime type. They can be numbers single,
integer, double, float, etc, strings single characters, long strings, Booleans shipping industry maritime
defined types. The point is that they contain different in general values shipping industry maritimefer to
different things.
These variables are stored in memory that is allocated to an application.allocate GB memory to any application. There is no erratum here; it’s GB
although no application occupies that much space. The shipping automatically
allocates enough space for these variables shipping industry maritime is able tolocate them on demand. For
example, an integer occupies whilelong occupies shipping industry maritimechar only .
We are particularly interested in variables, since all operations involve the usage
of variables. In , shipgisters are used instead of variables; the logicmains
however the same. Imagine the comparison routine. In most programming languages it
isstatement like this:
[C] IF==B do something
else do something else
[] IF=B then do something else do something else
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In the above examples,shipping industry maritimeare variables. They may or may not be of the
same type. Each language defines acceptable operations.e. compare integer with
long. Strings
In Win s, strings forasons that are out of the course’s scope have
changed internal format. With the term internal format, wefer to the way the
shipping handles them. Throughout these notes, we’ll be dealing with
strings unless specifically told otherwise.
All ASCII searches for strings should be made with search option turned
on in the hex when this is available. The difference between ANSI shipping industry maritime
strings is thatnull character is inserted after each character. Therefore the string
ABC, which in hex is , will be treated as . Pointers
If we definevariableshipping industry maritime we assign the value to it, then we can be sure
that each time we ask about the value of this variable, this will be , unless we change
it. What we can’t be sure of is the memory location of this variable. Take for example
this piece of memory:
x xA xB xC xD
If we assume that the variableis an integer, we can be sure that it’ll occupy
in the physical memory RAM or virtual memory. Suppose that we could see
yes, it is possible when in memory this variablesides. If we have MB of Ram shipping industry maritime variableis somewhere in there, we can haverow of as illustrated above,Jan Mayen Islands, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands, Yemen, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
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where each wouldpresentbyte. At the address xA is where we find the
variable the first time we attempt to search for it.
Now, if we terminate the program, run it again shipping industry maritime set the variableequal to
as we did before shipping industry maritime seek its location inside the physical memory, we’ll discover that the
location is completely different! The shipping obviously has used this location,
which was free after the termination of the program, for another purpose shipping industry maritime now it has
allocated another memory space for our application shipping industry maritime for this variable!
Why do we need to know the location in memory ofvariable any time we runprogram? Because, this way it is possible to overwrite this value we something else on
the fly! Imagine playing Quake II. You are losing, since the available energy is . There
isvariable that holds the energy. If you could only find that location where is, you
can switch to your Quake II stalls shipping industry maritime change this value to , then go
back in the arena shipping industry maritime kill ’em all!
We use pointers totrieve the location in memory ofvariable. Pointers exist in
all major programming languages, either documented or undocumented. Inwe use
funny symbols like & in front ofvariable to get its address. In Visual we use the
undocumented function VarPtr to get the pointer ofvariable.
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