Fil-C's pointers work more like C pointers than like any other language construct I can think of, and are compatible enough that lots of C/C++ code compiles and runs with no changes.
So I think that Fil-C pointers are just pointers.
You could even get pedantic over what the spec says. If you go there, you find that Fil-C's pointers work exactly like how the spec promises pointers to work (and all of the places that the spec doesn't define either have safe semantics in Fil-C or lead to Fil-C safety errors).
So I think that Fil-C pointers are just pointers.
You could even get pedantic over what the spec says. If you go there, you find that Fil-C's pointers work exactly like how the spec promises pointers to work (and all of the places that the spec doesn't define either have safe semantics in Fil-C or lead to Fil-C safety errors).