chase pointers
chase pointers
(programming)To determine a chain of memory locations where
each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some
initial pointer, e.g. traversing a
linked list or other
graph structure. This may be performed by a computer
executing a program or by a programmer going through a
core dump or using a debugger.
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