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system relying only on the abstraction presented |
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in the previous section. |
in the previous section. |
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a particular data block is specified by adding a special |
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*pointer block* into the system, which contains |
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.. - In this section, we discuss a particular way |
.. - In this section, we discuss a particular way |
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of implementing pointers (this is our main contribution) |
of implementing pointers (this is our main contribution) |