Address Space Layout: SPARC V9

For 64-bit applications, the layout of the address space is closely related to that of 32-bit applications, though the starting address and addressing limits are radically different. Like SPARC V8, the SPARC V9 stack grows down from the top of the address space, while the heap extends the data segment from the bottom.

The diagram below shows the default address space provided to a 64-bit application. The regions of the address space marked as reserved might not be mapped by applications. These restrictions might be relaxed on future systems.

The actual addresses in the figure above describe a particular implementation on a particular machine, and are given for illustrative purposes only.