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What is a normalized pointer, how do we normalize a pointer?

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It is a 32bit pointer, which has as much of its value in the segment register as possible. Since a segment can start every 16bytes so the offset will have a value from 0 to F. for normalization convert the address into 20bit address then use the 16bit for segment address and 4bit for the offset address. Given a pointer 500D: 9407, we convert it to a 20bitabsolute address 549D7, Which then normalized to 549D:0007.