Collective Pointer (Categories for the Working Software Defect Researcher, Part 3)
Let’s now introduce collective pointers or pointer cones. Suppose we have a set of pointers pointing to fields of some memory structure. This set of pointers could be another structure as well or just a collection of pointers that can be logically brought together:
If we make the boundary opaque we can name such set of pointers as Collective Pointer (or Pointer Cone):
Another example is when we split the perception field of a pointer into disjoint collective pointers (the perception field as a whole is already a trivial collective pointer):
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