dereferencing

English

Verb

dereferencing

1. present participle and gerund of dereference

Noun

dereferencing (plural dereferencings)

1. The act by which something is dereferenced.
   • 2010, Wolfgang Mauerer, Professional Linux Kernel Architecture:

     Linus Torvalds himself designed the sparse tool to find direct userspace pointer dereferencings in the kernel.