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It's possible, if unlikely, that a compiler targeting the DEC Alpha could exhibit something similar (but with 16-bit values instead of bytes). See my reply to reitzensteinm.

(I have no idea if any Alpha compilers did this in the wild.)




That’s pretty fascinating, thank you!




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