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+// check-pass
+
+// This is issue #85435. But the real story is reflected in issue #85561, where
+// a bug in the implementation of feature(capture_disjoint_fields) () was
+// exposed to non-feature-gated code by a diagnostic changing PR that removed
+// the gating in one case.
+
+// This test is double-checking that the case of interest continues to work as
+// expected in the *absence* of that feature gate. At the time of this writing,
+// enabling the feature gate will cause this test to fail. We obviously cannot
+// stabilize that feature until it can correctly handle this test.
+
+fn main() {
+    let val: u8 = 5;
+    let u8_ptr: *const u8 = &val;
+    let _closure = || {
+        unsafe {
+            // Fails compilation with:
+            // error[E0133]: dereference of raw pointer is unsafe and
+            //               requires unsafe function or block
+            let tmp = *u8_ptr;
+            tmp
+
+            // Just dereferencing and returning directly compiles fine:
+            // *u8_ptr
+        }
+    };
+}