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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>chase pointers</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="charityware.html" title="charityware"/><link rel="next" href="chawmp.html" title="chawmp"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">chase pointers</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="charityware.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="chawmp.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="chase-pointers"/><dt xmlns="" id="chase-pointers"><b>chase pointers</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To go through multiple
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levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure.
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Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very common
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data type. This is techspeak, but it remains jargon when used of human
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networks. “<span class="quote">I'm chasing pointers. Bob said you could tell me who to
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talk to about....</span>” See
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<a href="../D/dangling-pointer.html"><i class="glossterm">dangling pointer</i></a> and <a href="../S/snap.html"><i class="glossterm">snap</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Cambridge] <span class="firstterm">pointer chase</span>
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or <span class="firstterm">pointer hunt</span>: The process of going
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through a <a href="core-dump.html"><i class="glossterm">core dump</i></a> (sense 1), interactively or on a
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large piece of paper printed with hex <a href="../R/runes.html"><i class="glossterm">runes</i></a>,
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following dynamic data-structures. Used only in a debugging
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