On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, David Lang wrote:

the cache never sees the virtual addresses, it operated excclusivly on the
physical addresses so the problem of aliasing never comes up.

 It depends on the implementation.

virtual to physical addres mapping is all resolved before anything hits
the cache.

 It depends on the processor.

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