Methods of Unswizzling
There are a potentially unlimited number of forms into which a pointer can be unswizzled, but some of the most popular include:
- The offset of the pointed-to object in the file
- The index of the pointed-to object in some sequence of records
- A unique identifier possessed by the pointed-to object, such as a person's social security number; in databases, all pointers are unswizzled in this manner (see foreign key)
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