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		zokier 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system That sounds surprisingly reasonable idea for signeds. Less so for unsigneds though. Has there been any architecture doing anything like that?

newpavlov 4 months ago [–]

I can not name an ISA with such instructions out of my head.

As for unsigned integers, as I mentioned in the other comment, we probably need two separate instruction sets for "wrapping" and NaN-able operations on unsigned integers.

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