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		dfawcus 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cost of a Closure in C Note - as far as I can see, it has similar behaviour to what you propose with _Wide for a wide pointer. Just that it is existing practice, from 40 years ago. I believe the High-C compiler with this support is still available, for modern embedded CPUs.

uecker 10 days ago [–]

Yes, I know about High-C although I did not know that it still exists. Thanks!

dfawcus 9 days ago | [–]

I ran across it recently. From a quick search now, possibly this lot:

https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=arc-metaware-mx

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