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heinrich5991 on June 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing a game engine in pure C: The Graphic Initi...

Apparently ARM64 does this for return values. I remembered the `#[repr(transparent)]` proposal that precisely tackled this problem for Rust: [RFC 1758](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/de0917dca549694fffbe3...).

dllthomas on June 7, 2019 [–]

Thanks, I'll dig in! Is this limited to floating point? That doesn't surprise me nearly as much.

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