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In embedded systems, the word “address” often sounds as if everyone means the same thing.

In bare-metal code, a pointer may be close to a real SRAM address. RTOS tasks may share one address space. An MCU with an MPU can catch some out-of-bounds accesses, but usually does not provide full address translation. A Linux user process sees virtual addresses, while a DMA device may see a different bus address.