basesaddress
Basesaddress is a term used in discussions of memory addressing to denote the base address of a memory region from which data are addressed. In most systems, addresses are computed as base address plus an offset, enabling access to individual elements within an array, a structure, or a mapped device region.
In programming, the block returned by a memory allocator has a base address equal to the first
In hardware and systems design, base addresses are used for memory-mapped I/O regions and for base address
The term basesaddress may appear as a variable name in source code or as a descriptive shorthand