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Introduction to Pointers

Understand pointers as memory cells or registers holding addresses of other memory locations in Linux ARM64 debugging. Learn pointer arithmetic and indirection through examples involving registers and memory layouts, enhancing your low-level debugging and reverse engineering skills.

The concept of a pointer is one of the most important to thoroughly understand in order to master Linux debugging. By definition, a pointer is a memory cell or a processor register that contains the address of another memory cell, as shown in the illustration below. It has its own address as any memory cell. Sometimes, a pointer is called an indirect address ...