On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 02:09:45PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> > It is pretty hard to work with double-indirect things, often have to
> > make sure the two memory accesses are not to the same address, etc.
> 
> Types will prevent that, typically, but in any case double indirect like that 
> is still fine, you just get the pointer in a roundabout way.  It would be 
> different if the machine actually does a "keep following pointers until the 
> 'this is a pointer' flag is false" mode, which some old machines do.

How should that even be expressed in GCC?  Heh.


Segher

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