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		akvadrako on Feb 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pointer Compression in V8 In general there doesn’t seem to be much use for pointers to specific bytes. Almost any field should be at least 32-bit aligned and when you do need an exact byte, storing an offset from the beginning of the object probably makes more sense.

barrkel on Feb 3, 2020 [–]

Any C code which does any kind of parsing or work with buffers almost certainly uses char* as a pointer to bytes.

Interesting portability effects then arise when you have different representations for void / char vs other pointer types.

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