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You can ask, but maybe you're asking the wrong question.

Breaking down the options.

Taking advantage of the conversion operator.

How do I set a value? Let me count the ways.

The C++ standard library template type has one of two states. It could be empty (not contain anything), or it could contain a . Suppose you start with an empty . How do you put a into it? One of my colleagues tried to do it in what seemed to be the most natural way: Use the assignment operator. Unfortunately, the assignment failed to compile...

The code in memory may not match what the debugger shows you if the debugger is itself is doing the changing.

Didn't even make it out of the gate.

The CPU doesn't see the entire write at once.

That's not something expressible in the Windows Runtime.

C imposes some constraints, but the principle is mostly still there.