Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs

Lobsters·26 points·inactive-user·almost 6 years ago·ralfj.de

Some time ago, I wrote a blog post about how there’s more to a pointer than meets the eye. One key point I was trying to make is that just because two pointers point to the same address...

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