Instead I'm going to be expecting the address of some int and the address of another int and thanks to this address I can literally find this address in RAM, do anything I want there, -- return and what I've just done is actually changed or mutate the values of those original variables.

我们所期望的是int型地址,和另外一个int型地址,幸亏这个地址，我可以找在RAM中找到它的地址，然后做我想做的事情，返回我处理后的东西,我可能改变了这些源变量。

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I mean what if you're running so many things, what if the user has copied and pasted their thesis and just pasted it at the blinking prompt such that you're now out of memory because your computer is somewhat limited in memory so get string cannot possibly return all those characters or fit all of those characters in memory and return to you the address of the first.

如果你运行了很多程序，假使用户复制粘贴了他们的论文,只是粘贴在光标提示符那里,这样就出现了内存不足,因为你们的计算机的内存是有限的,所以GetString不可能返回所有的字符,或者保存这些字符到内存中,并且返回第一个字符的地址。

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