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kmemcheck

kmemcheck

Posted Nov 29, 2007 15:20 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)
In reply to: kmemcheck by dw
Parent article: kmemcheck

On a 32-bit machine it is tempting to use 8 bits (an entire byte) to track access to 32 bits
(one word) of memory.  This gives speed while still saving some space.


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