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Re:Making Rust a Better Fit for Cheri and Other Platforms by masklinn on Thursday April 14, 2022 @06:34AM (#31025114)
.into() will work for u8 and u16, as rust assumes >= 16b pointers.
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Re:Making Rust a Better Fit for Cheri and Other Platforms by est31 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:21AM (#31025906)
Which totally makes sense. u8 means 256 bytes of addressable memory. You might design chips with such limited memory, but maybe high level (read non assembly) languages are not the right tool for targetting them.
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