Castor oil is a vegetable oil derived from the castor bean seed in its purest form. It is colorless, odorless and tasteless.
Encoding globally available pointers helps protect them from being exploited. The EncodePointer function obfuscates the pointer value with a secret so that it cannot be predicted by an external agent. The secret used by EncodePointer is different for each process. A pointer must be decoded before it can be used.
1 A number. 2  Pointer arithmetic is used to add this number to the address resulting in the address of one of the elements in the array. 3  Of course if zero is added the address is unchanged (it remains the address of the first element). 4  Use the * operator to get the contents at that address.