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mikewarotlast Monday at 2:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Code has to have addresses for calls and branches. Debuggers need to be able to control it all.


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suspended_statelast Monday at 3:54 AM

> Code has to have addresses for calls and branches.

Does it mean that at that level an address has to be an offset in a linear address space?

If you have hardware powerful enough to make addresses abstract, couldn't also provide the operations to manipulate them abstractly?

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