dereference

English - Turkish

Definition of dereference in English Turkish dictionary: referanstan ayırmak

English - English

Definition of dereference in English English dictionary: To obtain the value stored therein in an execution context which interprets that value as the address of a memory location; to access the thing to which the pointer points; to convert from a pointer to the thing denoted by the pointer, i e , the record it points to; The application of the unary operator * to a pointer to access the object the pointer points to; The act of using a reference to access a data value; The action of resolving a reference, i e retrieving the value stored at the referenced address; The process used in a program that uses a pointer to access the contents of memory; Also * or Indirection Access the value pointed to by a pointer