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xfer on July 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV S...

So zig doesn't support 64bit arithmetics on 32/16/8bit architectures? What about division? Quite a few hardware don't support division( https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...).

> The very concept of operator overloading is incompatible with such a guarantee.

Why would operator overloading allocate memory? The memory is already allocated(by the user) when you call with the operands.

dinglejungle on July 16, 2021 [–]

> Why would operator overloading allocate memory?

What if I wanted to overload the + operator to concatenate strings?

xfer on July 16, 2021 | [–]

Yes that was poorly thought out. I realized it after i commented.

There is definitely some merit in being puritanical about not having any allocations in operators.

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