Segmentation
ä Segmentation is a memory management scheme
that supports a logical view of the address space
of a process as made up of several different size
segments
ä A segmented memory has the following
advantages:
ä simplifies the handling of data structures that are
growing or shrinking
ä the linking up of procedures compiled separately is
greatly simplified
ä facilitates sharing of data or procedures between
processes
ä procedures and data segments can be distinguished
and separately protected