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Den 2021-03-04 kl. 22:00, skrev Shark8:
> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 1:09:24 PM UTC-7, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Shark8 writes:
>>
>>> if they did not have the same representation you would
>>> have to use UNCHECKED_CONVERSION
>> and you'd be in a world of pain
> Not necessarily, as the registers of x86 show with AX overlaid upon AH+AL, absolutely not the same representation, unchecked_conversion (or address-overlay) would be a perfectly fine way to model the situation.
> But the given situation: a 16-bit integer and an address-type? / That's just asking for pain.
> 

hmm, yes.
But perhaps I should cast the 16 bit to a 64 bit variable
and then do unchecked conversion?

I'll spend the afternoon trying different approaches

-- 
Björn