Walter Bright: > Frits van Bommel: > > [1]: Hey, x86 technically has 6-byte pointers if you count segments as > > part of the pointer (which would be mostly useless on currently popular > > operating systems though). > > It does, but I know of no compiler that supports that (C, C++, or any > other), and code that needs to deal with that tends to be assembler.
16 free bits suggest various possible usages, for example the length for small strings/arrays, halving the size of the array struct. Bye, bearophile
