This would make for some interesting/confusing calling conventions. It
would also mean T and mut T would no longer share a representation; int
would simply be int, but mut int would still have to be a pointer.
Borrowing mut T to T would be a dereference if T is pointer size or
smaller? The only
I think something along these lines should do:
fn bitwise_compareT(a: T, b: T) - bool {
use std::{ptr,sys,cast,uint};
let size = sys::size_of::T();
unsafe {
let a: u8 = cast::transmute(a);
let b: u8 = cast::transmute(b);
for uint::range(0,size) |n| {
if *ptr::offset(a,n)
