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In the following, for example, a 2-byte pointer variable identifies a chunk of memory that contains the address of an integer object:
*----- Pointer variable identifies the address of a chunk of
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|00000000|01011000|
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| Number 88 refers to address of the byte where memory
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| *----- 4 bytes of reserved storage
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-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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