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		ATsch on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C I'm not sure if it matters. It might be better for some technical reason, such as speeding up double dereferences, because you don't need to add anything to get to the pointer. But to be honest I just copied it out of existing code.

saagarjha on April 14, 2020 [–]

Most platforms have instructions for dereferencing with a displacement.

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