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<dimenus>
andrewrk: how do error unions work underneath the hood?
<dimenus>
you wrap the simple type in a union with an extra flag?
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<andrewrk>
dimenus, it wraps the simple type by making it a struct with an integer field and the underlying type field
<andrewrk>
you can see an example by using --verbose-llvm-ir and looking at the generated data types