dereference
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪˈɹɛfɹəns/
dereference (dereferences, present participle dereferencing; past and past participle dereferenced)
- (programming) To access the value or object located in a memory location stored in a pointer or another value interpreted as such; to access a value being referenced by something else.
- Attempting to dereference a null pointer often results in a crash.
- (computing, in operating systems derived from Unix) To operate on the file or directory pointed to by a symbolic link, rather than on the link itself.
- With the find command, any symbolic links appearing after -follow will be dereferenced.
- Synonyms: follow, resolve
- French: déréférencer
- Portuguese: desreferenciar
- Russian: разыменовать
- French: déréférencer
dereference (plural dereferences)
- The act by which something is dereferenced.
- 1999, Michael Barry Greenwald, Non-blocking synchronization and system design (page 77)
- Either each dereference must use a complicated DCAS protocol, or each pointer must include a version number that is managed on each modification and checked on each dereference, or storage management must be tightly coupled […]
- 1999, Michael Barry Greenwald, Non-blocking synchronization and system design (page 77)
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