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On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 03:15:12PM -0700, Ramon de C Valle wrote:

> [1]:
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/language-features/cfi-encoding.html

I'm sorry, but that looks like a comment from where I'm sitting :-(
Worst part is it being on a line of it's own and thus unrelated to
anything.

This rust syntax is horrific..


> [2]:
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-04-advanced-types.html#using-the-newtype-pattern-for-type-safety-and-abstraction

I don't speak enough rust to even begin following this :/

> [3]: Wrapping a type in a struct should achieve something similar even
> without using the cfi_encoding attribute since the encoding for structs in
> both are <length><name>, where <name> is <unscoped-name>.

You're not talking about C, right?