On Friday, 9 January 2026 07:32:32 Brasilia Standard Time Frederick Virchanza
Gotham via Std-Proposals wrote:
> In choosing the name for the type "atomic_pointer_pair", the 'pointer'
> part really just means "the register width". That's why the member
> functions of atomic_pointer_pair will allow you to access either of
> the pointers as intptr_t, so that when you're writing a lockfree
> container you can have "pointer + counter".

And why wouldn't a plain struct of the same size suffice?

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