Neat project: add pointer capability to std.bitmanip.bitfields

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On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 19:54:26 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 19:39:47 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Once done, this is a fantastic example of (a) the power of 
>> generative programming, and (b) the advantages of using 
>> library facilities instead of built-in features.
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15397
>>
>> Who would want to take it?
>
> Warning, this is very unsafe and incompatible with the GC. 
> Bit-twiddling GC pointers can lead to memory corruption and 
> very hard-to-track bugs. Such a feature must be opt-in in a 
> very explicit way.

Iirc I'm the one that originally brought this up. There's no 
reason for lsb smuggling in pointers to be unsafe

I personally think tricks like these are important in advertising 
D as a systems language, as I'm often missing some low level 
features compared to GNU C.

Bye.