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Zoxc
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May 1, 2017 at 8:06 pm
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#2829

Is preserving pointers required for C/C++ code or this is only useful to catch overflows before they clobber the reserved bits? What would happen if the source code converts a pointer to a integer, does some arithmetic and converts it back to a pointer?