Ah, but it used ints (or bignum) to represent my pointer values, instead of silently losing precision. This is an anecdote, maybe there are other gotchas I am b

Ah, but it used ints (or bignum) to represent my pointer values, instead of silently losing precision. This is an anecdote, maybe there are other gotchas I am blissfully ignorant of. (Also, this was 8 years ago.)