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What could possibly go wrong with casting a pointer to an integer and using that as the identifier of the object being pointed to?
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sommerfeld 2y ago

Why even cast it to an integer? Can't you directly use a pointer as an identifier?

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fiatjaf 2y ago

Because I want to send it through JSON across the wire!

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hazeycode 2y ago

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radii 2y ago

Lol does assigning uuids based on your computers memory allocation make sense to sync to another machine? Idk... Collisions, dereferenceing could fail. Is this a trick question?

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sommerfeld 2y ago

I think UUIDs + a local LUT of pointers -> UUIDs is probably the best way to go.

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Jeff 2y ago

That’s my take

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The hermit from 1986 2y ago

Strongly typed language shenanigans, I suppose.