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- abbreviation programming  pointer 
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								In Pascal, we can create a pointer variable ptr that will point to cells of a given type, say celltype, by the declaration var ptr: ↑ celltype A postfix up-arrow is used in Pascal as the dereferencing operator, so the expression ptr↑ denotes the value (of type celltype) in the cell pointed to by ptr. 
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								In Pascal, we can create a pointer variable ptr that will point to cells of a given type, say celltype, by the declaration var ptr: ↑ celltype A postfix up-arrow is used in Pascal as the dereferencing operator, so the expression ptr↑ denotes the value (of type celltype) in the cell pointed to by ptr. 
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								Set24: push ds ax xor ax, ax mov ds, ax mov ax, offset Int24 xchg ax, word ptr ds: [24*4] mov word ptr cs: [Old24], ax; set up critical error handler mov ax, cs xchg ax, word ptr ds: [24*4+2] mov word ptr cs: [Old24+2], ax pop ax ds ret db 0e9 
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								BaseThreadStart+0x46 : 448 77e8757e ff15b012e877 call dword ptr KERNEL32! Site Home kikiwaka 2011 
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								FAULTING_IP: netw5v64+b6d8 fffff880 ` 0aaba6d8 488b4808 mov rcx, qword ptr [rax+8] Irish Blogs Nick Whittome - The Naked MVP 2010 
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								Oh, now I see checkasm is also crashing on a similar instruction: image00000000_00400000+0x9dba4: 00000000 ` 0049dba4 660f7f7c2418 movdqa oword ptr Doom9's Forum 2009 
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								SampTraceEvent (741d5251) 741d7a5d 8b7518 mov esi, dword ptr [ebp+18h] 741d7a60 3bf3 cmp esi, ebx MSDN Blogs 2009 
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								SampTraceEvent (741d5251) 741d7cee 8b45fc mov eax, dword ptr [ebp-4] 741d7cf2 5e pop esi MSDN Blogs 2009 
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								SampTraceEvent (741d5251) 741d7cee 8b45fc mov eax, dword ptr [ebp-4] 741d7cf2 5e pop esi MSDN Blogs rguthrie-msft 2009 
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								Here's where it crashes: image00000000_00400000+0xbeb54: 00000000 ` 004beb54 660f7f7c2418 movdqa oword ptr Doom9's Forum 2009 
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