freebsd-ports/devel/p5-Devel-Pointer/pkg-descr
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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: https://metacpan.org/release/Devel-Pointer