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Re:Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul by pjmlp on Sunday March 20, 2022 @02:43PM (#30745367)
Just like on the 16 bit days there were near and far pointer extensions on MS-DOS and Windows 16 bit.
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Re:Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul by mrlonglong on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:29PM (#30784364)
And th choice of lovely memory models including tiny, small, medium, large and huge depending on the code and data sizes. Good times.
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