3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Indirection \In`di*rec"tion\, n. [Cf. F. indirection.]
Oblique course or means dishonest practices; indirectness.
``By indirections find directions out.'' --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
indirection
n 1: indirect procedure or action "he tried to find out by
indirection"
2: deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see
through the indirections of diplomats"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
indirection
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)
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