IT lexicon Programming Pointer

Pointer

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A variable that holds a memory address pointing to another variable.

The heart of C/C++. int *p = &x; = "p points to x". Powerful but dangerous — dangling pointers, double-free, buffer overruns. Rust solves classic pointer bugs with the ownership system at compile time.

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