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This is the memory layout of a standard process :

This can be changed by the app :
- 0x00100000 to 0xB0000000 		Application's code and data (data for heap allocated with sbrk)
- 0xBF000000 					User stack for first thread (other threads must have a pre-allocated stack)
This is necessary :
- 0xC0000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF		Kernel code and heap

The beginning of the kernel code at 0xC0000000 corresponds to the linker-defined
symbol k_highhalf_addr, that is used at as many places as possible.
If this address was to be changed, it would have to be changed in two places :
- link.ld, change address of k_highhalf_addr;
- loader_.asm, update the temporary GDT structure data.