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Kristine1975
on June 1, 2016
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You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C
> That did happen in practice as programmers used the highest bits to stuff metadata and relied on the automatic masking
The old Mac OS did this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_memory_management#32-bi...
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The old Mac OS did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_memory_management#32-bi...