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Segments of the 32-bit Address Space

When operating in 32-bit mode, the MIPS architecture uses addresses that are 32-bit unsigned integers from 0x0000 0000 to 0xFFFF FFFF. However, this address space is not uniform. The MIPS hardware divides it into segments, and treats each segment differently. The ranges are shown graphically in Figure 1-5.

Figure 1-5 : The 32-Bit Address Space The address segments differ in three characteristics:


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