• Lightfire228@pawb.social
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    8 days ago

    The distinction is meaningless in the land of Opcode’s and memory addresses

    For example, a struct is just an imaginary “overlay” on top of a contiguous section of memory

    Say you have a struct

    struct Thing {
      int a;
      int b;
      Thing* child;
    }
    
    Thing foo {}
    

    You could easily get a reference to foo->child->b by doing pointer arithmetic

    *((*((*foo) + size(int)*2)) +size(int))
    

    (I’ve not used C much so I’ve probably got the syntax wrong)