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What does dereference mean?

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  1. (programming) To obtain the value stored in (a memory location) in an execution context which interprets that value as the address of another memory location.
  2. (programming) To access the object at which (a pointer) points.
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On other CPUs, the data dependency implied by the pointer dereference suffices, so on these CPUs, line 18 generates no code.
Therefore, each user or process that needs to resolve an identifier must know, a priori, which service should be used to dereference that identifier.
Any dereference of a pointer that causes a fault must be an access to an object on an access frontier page.
The OpenBabel iterators use the dereference operator to access the data, the increment operator to iterate to the next element, and the boolean operator to test whether any elements remain.
The overhead is a single dereference to get the class property.

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