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Rust has some precedence for adding convenience newtypes with overloaded operators (eg. `Wrapping<I>´ for `I.wrapping_add(I)` etc). Such a wrapper isn't currently proposed AFAIK but there's no reason one couldn't be added in the future I believe.

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For giggles, here's one I whipped up, along with an example use: https://godbolt.org/z/Eezj35dzc

Wow, that's some hardcore unrolling.

Having done unspeakable things with the C preprocessor myself, this Rust macro soup truly warms my heart <3

Oh this is simple, this is just a bit of basic expansion to generate boilerplate. The real experts can do some gnarly and amazing stuff with macros.

Right, as long as the LLVM intrinsics are exposed you could just put that in a crate somewhere.

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