Depending on the processor architecture, you might be able to assume a minimum memory alignment and then immediately disqualify values whose least significant bits aren’t zero.
You probably can't if your programming language puts data in those bits (which is fairly commin since it's a very convenient place to store a couple bits of data for the GC).
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Depending on the processor architecture, you might be able to assume a minimum memory alignment and then immediately disqualify values whose least significant bits aren’t zero.
You probably can't if your programming language puts data in those bits (which is fairly commin since it's a very convenient place to store a couple bits of data for the GC).