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4 identifiers linking indirection across the web's reference databases
6 statements · 50% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
4 identifiers linking indirection across the web's reference databases
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In computer science, an indirection is a way of referring to something using a name, reference, or container instead of the value itself. The most common form of indirection is the act of manipulating a value through its memory address; e.g., accessing a variable through the use of a pointer. A stored pointer that exists to provide a reference to an object by double indirection is called an indirection node. In some older computer architectures, indirect words supported a variety of more-or-less complicated addressing modes.