Pointer jumping or path doubling is a design technique for parallel algorithms that operate on pointer structures, such as linked lists and directed graphs...
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I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures." Donald Knuth, Structured Programming...
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"Jump (For My Love)" is an electropop song by American girl group the Pointer Sisters, released on April 11, 1984, as the third single from their tenth...
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The Pointer Sisters are an American female vocal group from Oakland, California, who achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. They have...
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June Antoinette Pointer (November 30, 1953 – April 11, 2006) was an American singer, best known as the youngest of the founding members of the vocal group...
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Ruth Esther Pointer (born March 19, 1946) is an American singer best known as the eldest surviving member of the family vocal group the Pointer Sisters....
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female vocal group the Pointer Sisters, released on November 1, 1983, on Planet Records, distributed by RCA Records. It is the Pointer Sisters' most successful...
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"Bonnie" Pointer (July 11, 1950 – June 8, 2020) was an American singer, best known for having been a member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters. Pointer scored...
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arguments into virtual memory; initializing registers (e.g., the stack pointer); jumping to the program entry point (_start). In Microsoft Windows 7 and above...
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Pointer (January 23, 1948 – December 31, 2022) was an American singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters...
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Dangling pointers and wild pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special...
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language consists of only eight simple commands, a data pointer, and an instruction pointer. Brainfuck is an example of a so-called Turing tarpit: it...
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Return-oriented programming (redirect from Pointer authentication)
using return-oriented and jump-oriented programming attacks. While PAC focuses on the source of a branch operation (a signed pointer), BTI focuses on the destination...
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"Automatic" is a song recorded by American vocal group the Pointer Sisters for their tenth studio album Break Out (1983). The song was released by the...
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This is the discography of American R&B/soul/pop/country vocal group The Pointer Sisters. The group charted 16 songs in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot...
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planarization planar straight-line graph PLOP-hashing point access method pointer jumping pointer machine poissonization polychotomy polyhedron polylogarithmic polynomial...
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Buffer overflow (redirect from Pointer protection)
overwrite to jump to an instruction already in memory which will make a second jump, this time relative to the pointer. That second jump will branch execution...
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Processor register (redirect from Pointer register)
they usually include the program counter, also called the instruction pointer, and the status register; the program counter and status register might...
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JMP (x86 instruction) (section Short Jump)
relative jump with a 16-bit pointer; a long jump (inter-segment), a relative jump with a 32-bit pointer; and a register-indirect absolute jump using the...
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Cursor (user interface) (redirect from Mouse pointer)
display device that will respond to input, such as a text cursor or a mouse pointer. Cursor is Latin for 'runner'. A cursor is a name given to the transparent...
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Virtual method table (redirect from Virtual function pointer)
the class that points to an array of pointers to (virtual) functions called the virtual method table. These pointers are used at runtime to invoke the appropriate...
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Segmentation fault (redirect from Null pointer dereference)
uninitialized pointer (wild pointer, which points to a random memory address) Dereferencing or assigning to a freed pointer (dangling pointer, which points to memory...
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Look up Jump, jump, or jumping in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jump most commonly refers to jumping, a form of movement in which an organism propels...
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Great white shark (redirect from White Pointer)
white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which can...
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I'm So Excited (category The Pointer Sisters songs)
"I'm So Excited" is a song by American girl group the Pointer Sisters. Jointly written and composed by the sisters in collaboration with Trevor Lawrence...
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used with the normal conditional jump/branch instructions directly without any intervening steps. The instruction pointer is called ip in 16-bit mode, eip...
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Program counter (redirect from Instruction pointer)
The program counter (PC), commonly called the instruction pointer (IP) in Intel x86 and Itanium microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction...
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Player of the Year twice. He set the NCAA single-season record for three-pointers made (162) as a sophomore and led the NCAA Division I in scoring during...
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Stack register (redirect from Stack pointer)
register is the 16-bit Stack Pointer (SP), with the 32-bit IA-32 version extending SP to the 32-bit Extended Stack Pointer (ESP), and the 64-bit x86-64...
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Branch table (redirect from Jump table)
exactly the same purpose. This pointer function method can result in saving one machine instruction, and avoids the indirect jump (to one of the branch instructions)...
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