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kevin_thibedeautoday at 2:57 AM1 replyview on HN

A pointer doesn't necessarily point to memory.


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j1elotoday at 7:58 AM

A nitpick to your nitpick: they said "memory location". And yes, a pointer always points to a memory location. Notwithstanding that each particular region of memory locations could be mapped either to real physical memory or any other assortment of hardware.

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