POINTER

POINTER returns a pointer value that identifies the generation specified by an offset reference x, in an area specified by y. If x is the null offset value, the null pointer value is returned.

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Abbreviation: PTR

x
Offset reference. It can be the null offset value. If it is not, x must identify a generation of a based variable, but not necessarily in y. If it is not in y, the generation must be equivalent to a generation in y.
y
Area reference.

Generations of based variables in different areas are equivalent if, up to the allocation of the latest generation, the variables have been allocated and freed the same number of times as each other.