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Dereference vs Dereferenceable - What's the difference?

dereference | dereferenceable |

As a verb dereference

is .

As an adjective dereferenceable is

(computing) that can be dereferenced.

dereference

English

(wikipedia dereference)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (programming, of a memory location) To obtain the value stored therein in an execution context which interprets that value as the address of a memory location
  • (programming, of a pointer) to access the thing to which the pointer points.

    • See also

    * pointer

    dereferenceable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (computing) That can be dereferenced.
  • * 2003 , Jeremy Gibbons, Johan Jeuring, Generic Programming
    • The assertions check that all conditions required of a dereferenceable iterator are satisfied...