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Aug 25, 2026
valigo
Nov 17, 2025
People who say "C is modern-day assembly" usually way undershoot it.
Nov 17, 2025
When it comes to pointers, "just use 64 bit integer" is way more intuitive to me.
Nov 25, 2025
@valigo Interestingly, if you try to write Rust in this way, pointer provenance will cause misoptimizations that break everything.
Nov 18, 2025
@valigo Wouldn't this make working with arrays more difficult? Array[1] would have to be Array[sizeof(data)] etc
Nov 18, 2025
It is confusing if you aren't used to it, that is true.
Nov 18, 2025
@valigo Pointer arithmetic based on type sizes makes sense when considering aligned load/store memory operations.
Nov 18, 2025
@valigo For real I'm parsing through a binary array and trying to say "the next byte is a uint8_t, the next two bytes are a uint16_t" and the most elegant way to do it is mind-numbingly ugly pointer bullshit.
Nov 18, 2025
@valigo I had the displeasure of being exposed to Hex-Ray’s decompiler for years so I have gotten used to it, but it is annoying ye…
Nov 17, 2025
@valigo @NOTimothyLottes If this is not Timothy Lottes then who is it?
Nov 17, 2025
@valigo His style goes a bit beyond that, judging by the defines used it’s similar to some form of literate programming but with C preprocessor.

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