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