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What (who) is indirection - definition

REFERENCING AN ENTITY INDIRECTLY

Indirection (programming); Indirections; Indirectedly; Pointer indirection

indirection

<programming> Manipulating data via its address. Indirection is a powerful and general programming technique. It can be used for example to process data stored in a sequence of consecutive memory locations by maintaining a pointer to the current item and incrementing it to point to the next item. Indirection is supported at the machine language level by indirect addressing. Many processor and operating system architectures use vectors which are also an instance of indirection, being locations which hold the address of a routine to handle a particular event. The event handler can be changed simply by pointing the vector at a new piece of code. C includes operators "&" which returns the address of a variable and its inverse "*" which returns the variable at a given address. (1997-02-06)

Indirection

·noun Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

Indirection

In computer programming, indirection (also called dereferencing) is the ability to reference 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.

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Indirection

In computer programming, indirection (also called dereferencing) is the ability to reference 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. For example, 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.

Another important example is the domain name system which enables names such as en.wikipedia.org to be used in place of network addresses such as 208.80.154.224. The indirection from human-readable names to network addresses means that the references to a web page become more memorable, and links do not need to change when a web site is relocated to a different server.

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Examples of use of indirection

1. But the first words of Obama‘s victory speech in bone–white Iowa –– "You know, they said this day would never come" –– alluded to race only through deft indirection.

2. The search for what are called "extrasolar" planets is done through indirection, since they cannot be seen by even the strongest telescopes.

3. The notion that the president led the country into war through indirection or dishonesty is not the most damaging criticism of the administration.

4. That is the urgent priority set for the Islamic–based movement by voters upset with the turmoil, corruption and indirection that Abbas‘s Fatah party allowed to flourish.

5. But it must be said first that seventeen months ago there was no equivocation or indirection, no expedient evasion in speaking of Darfurs realities as what they were, and have remained: genocide.