[melvinroest]

> I can see what you meant, but I initially thought this was trying to say that a pointer declared with a single asterisk could only be dereferenced once and never dereferenced again afterwards

Ah, haha, I see! You're right. This could've been me back in the day.

> Also, I think low addresses aren't used for various reasons, but I believe the kernel is stored in the top, high-address region of the address space.

Ah, yea, I was foggy on this.

For what reasons aren't they used then?