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trwstoday at 3:23 PM1 replyview on HN

There’s a paper in flight to add a stdlib type to handle pointer tagging as well while preserving pointer provenance and so-forth. It’s currently best to use the intptr types, but the goal is to make it so that an implementation can provide specializations based on what bits of a pointer are insignificant, or even ignored, on a given target without user code having to be specialized. Not sure where it has landed since discussion in SG1 but seemed like a good idea.


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tialaramextoday at 3:51 PM

Given you aren't sure since SG1 this might be useless but... do you have a paper number? Or, more likely, know an author's name ?

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