dereference
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dereference (third-person singular simple present dereferences, present participle dereferencing, simple past and past participle dereferenced)
- (programming, of a memory location) To obtain the value stored therein in an execution context which interprets that value as the address of a memory location
- (programming, of a pointer) to access the thing to which the pointer points.
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obtain the value stored therein in an execution context
access the thing to which the pointer points
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