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+The primary purpose of this is to turn a smashed reference address back
+into a value. Once a reference is treated as a numeric value, you can't
+dereference it normally; although with this module, you can.
+
+Be careful, though, to avoid dereferencing things that don't want to be
+dereferenced.
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-Pointer/
+
+-- Sergey Skvortsov
+skv@FreeBSD.org