Hi,

just out of curiosity: If I print a hashref or arrayref like this:

my $aap = {};
my $noot = [];
local $\="\n";
print $aap; print $noot;
__END__
HASH(0x804d170)
ARRAY(0x804d23c)
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what are the numbers 0x804d170 and 0x804d23c exactly? Are they memory locations? Can I directly map this to something like /dev/mem, /dev/kmem or a coredump of the process (in case I make it dump core)?