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Re:Learn Rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019) by redrobein on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:39AM (#22391515)
> To explain what I think this comment means. When working on embedded systems, you can interact with hardware devices by writing directly to specially mapped memory areas.

And why can't you do this in rust?

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Re:Learn Rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019) by jasondclinton on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:49AM (#22391566)
You can. Rust allows full memory addressing.
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Re:Learn Rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019) by lawn on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:56AM (#22391602)
There's nothing to prevent you from doing this, although you may have to wrap it in an unsafe block.
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