After seeing all this nonsense I sure am glad I never have to deal with it
since I stick to C where sanity reigns... at least until your foot gets
shot XD

On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 at 19:03, Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 at 21:01, zxuiji via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > You can't just redfine the meaning of a pointer, asm defined it years
> ago and C etc just have to follow on, and asm defined it to have arithmetic
> so arithmetic it shall, always. If a vendor decides to make the add
> instruction throw an exception then the CPU is already dead in the water
> because no gamer will want it, no business will need it for their server
> more than one that allows it, there is literally no value to disabling
> pointer arithmetic and only cons.
>
> That's not correct at all. There are capability-based memory-safety
> approaches that turn off pointer arithmetic for single-object
> pointers, and that works
> just fine.
>