why not use low bit instead ?
why not use low bit instead ?
Posted Apr 1, 2022 8:13 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: why not use low bit instead ? by ballombe
Parent article: Pointer tagging for x86 systems
> After all unaligned accesses are not supported anymore
Says who?
> so all pointers start with 3 zero bits.
Yes as long as you use only 64 bits values.