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.
A void pointer is a pointer that has no associated data type with it. A void pointer can hold address of any type and can be typcasted to any type. int main(void) { // Note that malloc() returns void * which can be // typecasted to any type like int *, char *, ..