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reference/src/glossary.md

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#### (Pointer) Provenance
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The *provenance* of a pointer can be used to distinguish pointers that point to the same memory address.
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The *provenance* of a pointer can be used, in the Rust Abstract Machine, to distinguish pointers that point to the same memory address (i.e., pointers that, when cast to `usize`, will compare equal).
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For example, we have to distinguish pointers to the same location if they originated from different allocations.
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A pointer "remembers" the original allocation to which it pointed.

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