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.
pointer is a variable(like int,float,char,...) which holds address of another variables. Eg: int a=10; int *pa=&a; printf(%d,*pa); At the Compile time, The compiler Checks the Syntax At the Run time, it execute the first line then it allocate 2 bytes memory of var a with Some address.