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A program, to be executed, must be brought to main memory. The instructions that use addresses in a program, must be bound to proper address space in main memory. Address binding is a scheme that performs this job. It can be thought as a mapping from one address space to another. There are bindings available as follows: Compile time binding Load time binding Execution time binding

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