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Logical address used in segmentation
nWhen a process enters the Running state, a CPU register gets loaded with the starting address of the process’s segment table.
nPresented with a logical address (segment number, offset) = (n,m), the CPU indexes
(with n) the segment table to obtain the
starting physical address k and the length
l of that segment
nThe physical address is obtained by adding m to k (in contrast with paging)
uthe hardware also
compares the offset m with the length l of
that segment to determine if the address is valid
uwe cannot directly obtain the logical address from the physical address (in contrast with paging)