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This seems like a great IOCCC thing to do, but it's far too clever for my taste. I mean, it's making a pointer to a 64-bit value with an 8-bit name and casting that to an 8-bit pointer and then assigning that to a 32-bit value cast to a u8. Is it just my tiny brain that thinks this will be unintelligible on Monday? How about we just make the CPU do the thinking for us? IN[BWL] and MOV[BWL] have the same semantics here, right? So even if 'rax' and 'val' are 64-bit values here, the following should have all the right behaviors, I think. I generally loathe inline assembly. But we have a CPU that kinda knows the rules already. No need for us to laboriously reimplement it. Right? Thanks to the friendly LLM that knows inline assembly better than I do. The resulting compiled assembly looks right to me. /* * Use MOV[BWL] to/from registers to match the IN[BWL] behavior * including the fact that INL zeros the upper 64-bits while * IN[BW] don't zero anything. */ switch (size) { case 1: // Just write 1 byte of RAX: __asm__ volatile ("movb %b1, %b0" : "+q"(rax) : "q"(val)); break; case 2: // Write 2 bytes of RAX: __asm__ volatile ("movw %w1, %w0" : "+r"(rax) : "r"(val)); break; case 4: // Write 'val' into lower 32 bits. Zero the upper 32 bits: __asm__ volatile ("movl %k1, %k0" : "=r"(rax) : "r"(val)); break; default: // WARN } Thoughts?