dereference
verbEtymology
From de- + reference.
- derived from referentia
- borrowed from référence
Definitions
To access the value or object located in a memory location addressed by a pointer or…
To access the value or object located in a memory location addressed by 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.
To operate on the file or directory pointed to by a symbolic link, rather than on the…
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.
To dissolve a symbolic link by replacing it with a copy of its target.
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The act by which something is dereferenced.
- 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 […]
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dereference. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA