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Comment by dooglius

The concrete model was raised explicitly as a possible option, why can't I compare to that? TFA says that the status quo is ambiguous.

>Ptr2int casts were never legal

Citation on this? The existence of uintptr_t seems to say otherwise.

>That ship already sailed

In principle, I see no reason preventing future versions of the standard from defining previously-undefined behavior. That said, you are probably right in a realpolitik sense.

parent dooglius 5 years ago

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