D-A-V-I-D So when you get a string like D-A-V-I-D, what's really happening is inside your computer's RAM is going a byte where there's some zeros and ones.

譬如你有这么一个字符串，而在你电脑的RAM里将会变成,一个个由0和1组成的字节。

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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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