Is there any way of doing tagged references in safe Rust?
I've been looking at tagged pointers (the crate https://docs.rs/tagged-pointer/latest/tagged_pointer/ looks excellent) but it gives you back a raw pointer.
I'm not sure if you can create a safe wrapper for references using tagged pointers.
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The literal 0xffu8 in Rust is pretty tricky to read without syntax highlighting. It looks like a plain hexadecimal value at first.
(Why not have syntax highlighting? Ironically I was debugging and improving VS Code's Rust highlighting.)
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It's really satisfying fixing crashes in rust-analyzer. You can start from a panic message and dig until you've got a tiny Rust program that triggers the problem.
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