> The author has a rather restrictive view of addressing modes. Not really, no. I thought a single prominent example would suffice to show how the industry mo

> The author has a rather restrictive view of addressing modes. Not really, no. I thought a single prominent example would suffice to show how the industry moved towards the "flat address space" model and heaved a big sigh of relief after it had done so. > full value of the pointer can be used for other purposes such as type tagging [..] And this is very much dependent on being able to treat that pointer as an integer whose bits you can process...