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Dereferences vs Dereferenced - What's the difference?

dereferences | dereferenced |

As verbs the difference between dereferences and dereferenced

is that dereferences is third-person singular of dereference while dereferenced is past tense of dereference.

dereferences

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dereference)

    • 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

    dereferenced

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dereference)