Thursday, August 9, 2012

What is your Address ?



I was reading something about the pointers and suddenly the mobile vibrated indicating the receipt of a message :
Friend – where are you macha ?
Me – I am at home maga.
Friend – Which home ? Where ?
….
I continued reading. But the daemon processes in my mind were still clinging onto that conversation and I hardly was able to recognize that both the conversation and Pointers stuff I had been reading for a while had turned cocktail !

Here is how it goes:

          Address in it’s most general meaning is a collection of information used to uniquely describe the location of an entity. Pointers are those variables which hold the address of another variable.

          Where am I ? Is this the place where I belong ? If this (Earth i.e. mortal world ) is not my place , then what is my place?
Then my eyes read the following lines –“ Dangling pointers arise when an object is deleted or deallocated, without modifying the value of the pointer, so that the pointer still points to the memory location of the deallocated memory”

          Kabir says 'Kasturi kundal basey, mrig dhoondhe van mahi' ( The kasturi  (a fragnance ) is in naval of a particular specie of deer, but the deer having its fragrance runs in search of that in whole of forest) . 
         It is said that a part (though a small one) of the supreme power (God) resides within us and we are searching him everywhere. 
        Due to all the sins committed by us we have detached from our original place and hence have become dangling pointers. How to solve this? 

I still haven’t figured out a solution yet and may never find one. Nevertheless one question will always haunt me "What is your Address?"

Disclaimer: This blog represents some random thoughts that crept in and do not necessarily mean to criticize the preachings of any Religion. Also the author is not responsible for any incompleteness of any technical information regarding the pointers.

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