Split from A plea for int overflow checking as the default - #63 by Jean_Michel I am not sure this would be significantly better in the current state of the compiler. I haven’t looked into the implementation of BigInt, but just from poking around: AU=Union{Int, BigInt}[1, BigInt(-1)] pt = reinte…

Use of `pointer`

stevengj February 3, 2018, 5:36pm 5

reinterpret doesn’t allocate a new array.

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