Yann Guidon / YGDESType 0 is NULL/Error and detected from the three LSB.
But the remaining MSB are not checked...
So if the MSB are not cleared, this could lead to yet another type, 8-byte aligned. What could it be ?
More than an error
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This would likely not be a pointer though.
It could be an error code, a break code, some attribute maybe... Limited to 12 bits (minus the 3 LSB) because otherwise the (eventually mis-casted) pointer would point out of the NULL page and fail to trigger an error.
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