4.5 Pointer Data Types
You've probably experienced pointers firsthand in the Pascal, C, or Ada programming languages, and you're probably getting worried right now. Almost everyone has a bad experience when they first encounter pointers in a high-level language. Well, fear not! Pointers are actually easier to deal with in assembly language than in high-level languages. Besides, most of the problems you had with pointers probably had nothing to do with pointers but rather with the linked list and tree data structures you were trying to implement with them. Pointers, on the other hand, have many uses in assembly language that have nothing to do with linked lists, trees, and other scary data structures. Indeed, simple data structures like arrays ...
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