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		mh7 on April 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tower of Weakenings: Memory Models for Everyon... A classic example is when you're writing a custom allocator and need to align the address. Another is storing pointers in a hash table - you need to do arithmetic on the pointer bits to compute the hash.

Gankra on April 6, 2022 [–]

I already designed several new convenience methods for making this kind of thing simple and the PR to rust-lang is already open :)

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