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Overflow Intro. ©2002, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Susan L. Gerhart, Jan G.
Hogle.
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Special numbers used as addresses are
also stored in mailboxes!
If a number, such as the one in his right hand in this example, is used to reference a mailbox by its address then that number is referred to as a pointer.
You
guessed it, these pointers are also stored in mailboxes.