A hardware mechanism is needed for translating relative addresses to physical main memory addresses at the time of execution of the instruction that contains the reference.

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This statement is true. The mechanism for translating relative addresses to physical main memory addresses is called memory management unit (MMU) and it is a hardware component that performs this task during the execution of instructions. The MMU takes the relative address generated by the CPU and translates it to a physical address that can be accessed in main memory.

A Hardware Mechanism Is Needed for Translating Relative Addresses to Physical