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In Fortran, a pointer variable or simply a pointer is best thought of as a “free-floating” name that may be associated dynamically with or “aliased to” some object. The object already may have one or more other names or it may be an unnamed object. The object may represent data (a variable, for example) or be a procedure.
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Brainerd, W.S. (2015). Pointer and Allocatable Variables. In: Guide to Fortran 2008 Programming. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6759-4_10
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