dereferencing

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Verb

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dereferencing

  1. present participle and gerund of dereference

Noun

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dereferencing (plural dereferencings)

  1. The act by which something is dereferenced.
    • 2010, Wolfgang Mauerer, Professional Linux Kernel Architecture:
      Linus Torvalds himself designed the sparse tool to find direct userspace pointer dereferencings in the kernel.