dereference

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English - Turkish
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English - English
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