This lets you write methods using `self: Rc<Self>`, `self: Arc<Self>`, `self: Pin<&mut Self>`, `self: Pin<Box<Self>`, and other combinations involving `Pin` and another stdlib receiver type, without needing the `arbitrary_self_types`. Other user-created receiver types can be used, but they still require the feature flag to use.
This is implemented by introducing a new trait, `Receiver`, which the method receiver's type must implement if the `arbitrary_self_types` feature is not enabled. To keep composed receiver types such as `&Arc<Self>` unstable, the receiver type is also required to implement `Deref<Target=Self>` when the feature flag is not enabled.
This lets you use `self: Rc<Self>` and `self: Arc<Self>` in stable Rust, which was not allowed previously. It was agreed that they would be stabilized in #55786. `self: Pin<&Self>` and other pinned receiver types do not require the `arbitrary_self_types` feature, but they cannot be used on stable because `Pin` still requires the `pin` feature.
Rename `CoerceSized` to `DispatchFromDyn`, and reverse the direction so that, for example, you write
```
impl<T: Unsize<U>, U> DispatchFromDyn<*const U> for *const T {}
```
instead of
```
impl<T: Unsize<U>, U> DispatchFromDyn<*const T> for *const U {}
```
this way the trait is really just a subset of `CoerceUnsized`.
The checks in object_safety.rs are updated for the new trait, and some documentation and method names in there are updated for the new trait name — e.g. `receiver_is_coercible` is now called `receiver_is_dispatchable`. Since the trait now works in the opposite direction, some code had to updated here for that too.
I did not update the error messages for invalid `CoerceSized` (now `DispatchFromDyn`) implementations, except to find/replace `CoerceSized` with `DispatchFromDyn`. Will ask for suggestions in the PR thread.
Update to a new pinning API.
~~Blocked on #53843 because of method resolution problems with new pin type.~~
@r? @cramertj
cc @RalfJung @pythonesque anyone interested in #49150
doc: Clarify the lifetime returned by `Box::leak`
`Box::leak` mentions that it can return a `'static` reference, but it
wasn't immediately clear to me why it doesn't always do so. This is
because of the `T: 'a` constraint needed to form a valid reference, and
in general we want to be more flexible than requiring `T: 'static`.
This patch tries to clarify the relationship between `T` and `'a`.
`Box::leak` mentions that it can return a `'static` reference, but it
wasn't immediately clear to me why it doesn't always do so. This is
because of the `T: 'a` constraint needed to form a valid reference, and
in general we want to be more flexible than requiring `T: 'static`.
This patch tries to clarify the relationship between `T` and `'a`.
Inline most of the code paths for conversions with boxed slices
This helps with the specific problem described in #49541, obviously without making any large change to how inlining works in the general case.
Everything involved in the conversions is made `#[inline]`, except for the `<Vec<T>>::into_boxed_slice` entry point which is made `#[inline(always)]` after checking that duplicating the function mentioned in the issue prevented its inlining if I only annotate it with
`#[inline]`.
For the record, that function was:
```rust
pub fn foo() -> Box<[u8]> {
vec![0].into_boxed_slice()
}
```
To help the inliner's job, we also hoist a `self.capacity() != self.len` check in `<Vec<T>>::shrink_to_fit` and mark it as `#[inline]` too.
Some modules were still using the deprecated `allocator` module, use the
`alloc` module instead.
Some modules were using `super` while it's not needed.
Some modules were more or less ordering them, and other not, so the
latter have been modified to match the others.
