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vlovich123 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ointers: A library for representing pointers where...

Any idea why it's preferred to do the alignment route instead of storing the bits in the upper part of the pointer & masking?

db48x 6 months ago [–]

Personal preference, architectural differences, phase of the moon, etc, etc.

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