chase pointers
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chase pointers
1. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in
traversing a linked list or graph structure. Used especially
by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very
common data type.
See dangling pointer and snap.
2. (Cambridge) "pointer chase" or "pointer hunt": The process
of going through a core dump, interactively or on a large
piece of paper printed with hex runes, following dynamic
data-structures. Used only in debugging.
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(1995-05-11)