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support pointer subtraction

Open wooster0 opened this issue 1 month ago • 1 comments

Fixes #1738

I don't know if this should introduce a dedicated AIR instruction instead of emitting two int_from_ptr and a sub_wrap. This is also missing safety just like the existing pointer arithmetic but maybe that can be done as part of #1918? Otherwise, if those two things aren't a blocking issue I think this is more or less complete. It seems to work at least.

I also put an emphasis on introducing a clear distinction between "pointer-integer arithmetic" and "pointer subtraction" (pointer-pointer arithmetic) because both of those are "pointer arithmetic" so "pointer arithmetic" on its own becomes ambiguous.

wooster0 avatar May 27 '24 18:05 wooster0