 | pointer variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures." Donald Knuth, Structured Programming, with go to Statements In computer science... 73 KB (9,781 words) - 23:56, 30 March 2024 |
 | 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... 14 KB (1,781 words) - 10:50, 24 April 2024 |
In computer programming, an opaque pointer is a special case of an opaque data type, a data type declared to be a pointer to a record or data structure... 10 KB (996 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2023 |
trees Pointer Telocation, an Israeli company specializing in stolen vehicle recovery Pointer (computer programming), a data type used in programming Pointer... 2 KB (326 words) - 08:05, 3 January 2023 |
C (pronounced /ˈsiː/ – like the letter c) is a general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very... 99 KB (10,937 words) - 00:44, 5 May 2024 |
esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language... 25 KB (2,848 words) - 06:26, 21 April 2024 |
Indirection (redirect from Pointer indirection) pointer. A stored pointer that exists to provide a reference to an object by double indirection is called an indirection node. In some older computer... 5 KB (613 words) - 20:37, 21 March 2024 |
In computer science, a smart pointer is an abstract data type that simulates a pointer while providing added features, such as automatic memory management... 16 KB (1,847 words) - 18:53, 4 December 2023 |
In computer programming, a reference is a value that enables a program to indirectly access a particular datum, such as a variable's value or a record... 16 KB (2,117 words) - 20:44, 28 February 2024 |
dangling pointers and mitigate the problems they can cause in computer programs. Dangling pointers can appear in certain computer programming languages... 3 KB (411 words) - 10:38, 21 March 2023 |
In computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm of software that uses statements that change a program's state. In much the same... 32 KB (3,585 words) - 21:17, 26 March 2024 |
Cursor (user interface) (redirect from Mouse pointer) computing, a pointer or mouse pointer (as part of a personal computer WIMP style of interaction) is a symbol or graphical image on the computer monitor or... 23 KB (2,815 words) - 04:04, 24 April 2024 |
 | real-time operating system. Computer programming portal Destructor (computer programming) Dynamic dead-code elimination Smart pointer Virtual memory compression... 38 KB (3,962 words) - 07:44, 24 April 2024 |
theoretical computer science, a pointer machine is an atomistic abstract computational machine whose storage structure is a graph. A pointer algorithm could... 12 KB (1,556 words) - 09:20, 19 January 2024 |
Return-oriented programming (ROP) is a computer security exploit technique that allows an attacker to execute code in the presence of security defenses... 31 KB (3,847 words) - 12:53, 29 March 2024 |
History of Functional Programming Languages" (PDF). International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7829... 50 KB (6,385 words) - 23:05, 28 April 2024 |
Brainfuck (redirect from Brainfuck programming language/Examples) commands, a data pointer and an instruction pointer. Brainfuck is an example of a so-called Turing tarpit: it can be used to write any program, but it is not... 16 KB (1,780 words) - 00:21, 25 April 2024 |
 | Stack (abstract data type) (redirect from Pop (computer programming)) stack is an area of computer memory with a fixed origin and a variable size. Initially the size of the stack is zero. A stack pointer, usually in the form... 38 KB (4,615 words) - 02:56, 13 April 2024 |
 | The program counter (PC), commonly called the instruction pointer (IP) in Intel x86 and Itanium microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction... 12 KB (1,300 words) - 22:38, 5 April 2024 |
 | Physical address (category Computer memory) constant Addressing mode Address space Page address register Pointer (computer programming) Primary storage, also known as main memory Virtual memory Virtual... 4 KB (392 words) - 13:43, 12 June 2021 |
In computer programming, the pyramid of doom is a common problem that arises when a program uses many levels of nested indentation to control access to... 8 KB (914 words) - 17:45, 2 January 2024 |
Numbers in the Ch Programming Language". Scientific Programming: 76–106. Cheng, Harry (1993). "Scientific Computing in the Ch Programming Language". Scientific... 15 KB (1,498 words) - 22:11, 23 April 2024 |
In computer programming, a constant is a value that is not altered by the program during normal execution. When associated with an identifier, a constant... 20 KB (2,699 words) - 11:34, 24 April 2024 |
Null (redirect from Null (computer programming)) it, on Unix systems /dev/null Null pointer or reference (sometimes written NULL, nil, or None), an object pointer (or reference) not currently set to... 2 KB (288 words) - 06:15, 16 April 2024 |
Memory corruption (redirect from Computer memory hacking) heap corruption. Modern programming languages like C and C++ have powerful features of explicit memory management and pointer arithmetic. These features... 4 KB (478 words) - 16:46, 22 July 2023 |
const pointer if one was passed to them and an unqualified pointer if an unqualified pointer was passed to them. In Version 2 of the D programming language... 44 KB (5,533 words) - 08:52, 22 February 2024 |
In computer programming, a callback is a function that is stored as data (a reference) and designed to be called by another function – often back to the... 17 KB (1,868 words) - 13:29, 2 May 2024 |
Call stack (redirect from Frame pointer) details are normally hidden and automatic in high-level programming languages. Many computer instruction sets provide special instructions for manipulating... 26 KB (3,567 words) - 11:31, 4 April 2024 |
In computer science, a tagged pointer is a pointer (concretely a memory address) with additional data associated with it, such as an indirection bit or... 11 KB (1,526 words) - 09:30, 9 November 2023 |
In computer programming, the act of swapping two variables refers to mutually exchanging the values of the variables. Usually, this is done with the data... 8 KB (949 words) - 21:32, 9 December 2022 |