> What do you call a pointer with the high bits stolen? An ointer! What is the name a pointer with the low bits stolen? Machines with strict word addressing w

> What do you call a pointer with the high bits stolen? An ointer! What is the name a pointer with the low bits stolen? Machines with strict word addressing will ignore the bottom two bits so you can safely store what you want there. Not sure I've used, much less programmed a machine with that strict constraint in a while though. These days CPUs are all designed to implement the C abstract machine. At least the GPU folks are not subject to this constraint.