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Am I necessarily always allowed to convert a reference to a numeric address?

• Rusky 2y ago
  Yes, it's safe to cast a reference to a raw pointer and a raw pointer to an address. It might have been nicer in some ways if the language had restricted that a bit more up front, but it would probably have taken some design work to do that while still supporting a lot of the low-level stuff people need to do.
  • alkonaut 2y ago
    An internal reference could only be cast to a relative memory offset. It’s not a global memory address in disguise like a normal reference. So the same casting rules wouldn't apply.