Do you gain any operations when you constrain a generic type using where T : struct?

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This may be a bit of an abstract question, so apologies in advance.

I am looking into generics in .NET, and was wondering about the where T : struct constraint.

I understand that this allows you to restrict the type used to be a value type. My question is, without any type constraint, you can do a limited number of operations on T.

Do you gain the ability to use any additional operations when you specify where T : struct, or is the only value in restricting the types you can pass in?

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