Hi,

The integer represented by the hex notation 0x78000000 is the same integer as 2,013,265,920, which is in decimal notation. I think your program does the equivalent of:

my $x = \1;
print $x, "\n";
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which outputs something like this:

SCALAR(0x1810e50)
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I believe that hex address is where the integer 1 is located in memory. In other words, you didn't succeed in getting a pointer to the address 0x1.