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.
Pointers can be accessed along with structures. A pointer variable of structure can be created as below: Here, the pointer variable of type struct name is created. Structure's member through pointer can be used in two ways: 1  Referencing pointer to another address to access memory.