What are segment and offset addresses?

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What are segment and offset addresses?..

Answer / sanjay bhosale

Segments are nothing but sections for e.g code segment(also called text region),data segment, stack segment and heap segment.
They represent different parts of the process or different aspects of the process.

Offsets represents address where next read of write should begin.

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What are segment and offset addresses?..

Answer / mayank

When paging technique is performed ,The page will breaks in
to the segments and its sequence is said to be segments and
is width or can be said as length is called is offset.
In sort...
segment is physical address..
and offset is logical address..

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