From 2dd74ce66084584c347fc0556b9e89f893ac6fab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: judah <judahrcr@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:10:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mem: add BitCast, BitCastValue, UnsafeCast, UnsafeCastValue

---
 mem/mem.go | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mem/mem.go b/mem/mem.go
index 2ca7509..94c29fa 100644
--- a/mem/mem.go
+++ b/mem/mem.go
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ func BitCast[TOut any, TIn any](value *TIn) TOut {
 	return *((*TOut)(unsafe.Pointer(value)))
 }
 
+// BitCastValue performs a bit conversion between two types of the same size.
+//
+// BitCastValue panics if the sizes of the types differ.
 func BitCastValue[TOut any, TIn any](value TIn) TOut {
 	if Sizeof[TOut]() != Sizeof[TIn]() {
 		panic("bitcast: sizes of types must match")
@@ -47,6 +50,16 @@ func BitCastValue[TOut any, TIn any](value TIn) TOut {
 	return *((*TOut)(unsafe.Pointer(&value)))
 }
 
+// UnsafeCast performs a bit conversion between two types without checking if their sizes match.
+func UnsafeCast[TOut any, TIn any](value *TIn) TOut {
+	return *((*TOut)(unsafe.Pointer(value)))
+}
+
+// UnsafeCastValue performs a bit conversion between two types without checking if their sizes match.
+func UnsafeCastValue[TOut any, TIn any](value TIn) TOut {
+	return *((*TOut)(unsafe.Pointer(&value)))
+}
+
 // Copy copies size number of bytes from src into dst.
 //
 // Returns dst.