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| the Intel x86 architecture | instance of | in certain platforms | 0.80 | text |
| be called a segmentation fault | instance of | in certain platforms | 0.80 | text |
| memory segmentation or paging is employed to use different parts of the memory at different times | instance of | a more complex scheme | 0.80 | text |
| file offsets | instance of | There are analogous concepts | 0.80 | text |
| array indices | instance of | There are analogous concepts | 0.80 | text |
| and remote object references that serve some of the same purposes as addresses for other types of objects | instance of | There are analogous concepts | 0.80 | text |
| PL/I | instance of | UsesPointers are directly supported without restrictions in languages | 0.80 | text |
| C | instance of | UsesPointers are directly supported without restrictions in languages | 0.80 | text |
| vector define an iterator type | instance of | collections | 0.80 | text |
| // with begin | instance of | collections | 0.80 | text |
| the end of a list of unknown length or the failure to perform some action | instance of | Null pointers are routinely used to represent conditions | 0.80 | text |
| EXEC CICS or EXEC SQL statements.Extended versions of COBOL also provide pointer variables declared withUSAGEISPOINTERclauses | instance of | but their contents are implicitly accessed indirectly through theirLINKAGEpointers.Memory space for each pointed-to data object is typically allocated dynamically using external… | 0.80 | text |
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