[CST-2] Address taken variable

[David Singleton]

An address taken variable is one whose address has been 'taken' by the
program (funnily enough!)

E.g. in C 

   a = &b;

we set a (usually a pointer) to the address of b :- b is address taken.

David

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cst-2-admin@srcf.ucam.org [mailto:cst-2-admin@srcf.ucam.org]On
> Behalf Of Alvin
> Sent: 29 May 2002 23:28
> To: cst-2@srcf.ucam.org
> Subject: [CST-2] Address taken variable
> 
> 
> Gets mentioned quite a lot in optimising compilers.  What exactly is an
> address taken variable?
> 
> Alvin
> 
> 
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