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I mean you are correct, but why else would a pointer be converted to it if not to cast it back at some point? I guess you can print it for debugging, but most o

I mean you are correct, but why else would a pointer be converted to it if not to cast it back at some point? I guess you can print it for debugging, but most other uses means it will be used as pointer at some point.

pcwalton 5y ago
Another reason for converting pointers to integers without ever doing the reverse operation is to hash them.
rsaxvc 5y ago
Some hand-vectorized code will do this to compute the number of non-vectorized elements that may exist before and after a suitably aligned region.