Partial future-proofing for Box<T, A>
In some ways, this is similar to @eddyb's PR #47043 that went stale, but doesn't cover everything. Notably, this still leaves Box internalized as a pointer in places, so practically speaking, only ZSTs can be practically added to the Box type with the changes here (the compiler ICEs otherwise).
The Box type is not changed here, that's left for the future because I want to test that further first, but this puts things in place in a way that hopefully will make things easier.
As of now, Box only contains a Unique pointer, so this is the sole
argument to box_free. Consequently, we remove the code supporting
the previous box_free signature. We however keep the old definition
for bootstrapping purpose.
94d1970bba moved the alloc::allocator
module to core::heap, moving e.g. Alloc and Layout out of the alloc
crate. While alloc::heap reexports them, it's better to use them from
where they really come from.
Thew `_raw` prefix is included because the fact that `Box`’s ownership
semantics are "dissolved" or recreated seem more important than the exact
parameter type or return type.
After discussing [1] today with @pnkfelix and @Gankro,
we concluded that it’s ok for drop checking not to be much smarter
than the current `#[may_dangle]` design which requires an explicit
unsafe opt-in.
[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27730#issuecomment-316432083
There are a few exceptions to the rule that Arc/Rc are immutable. Rather
than dig into the details, add "generally" to hint at this difference,
as it's kind of a distraction at this point in the docs.
Additionally, Arc's docs were slightly different here generally, so add
in both the existing language and the exception.
Fixes#44105
Implements RFC 1845, adding implementations of:
* `From<&[T]>` for `Rc<[T]>`
* `From<&str>` for `Rc<str>`
* `From<String>` for `Rc<str>`
* `From<Box<T: ?Sized>>` for `Rc<T>`
* `From<Vec<T>>` for `Rc<[T]>`
* and likewise for `Arc<_>`
Also removes now-obsolete internal methods `Rc::__from_array` and
`Rc::__from_str`, replacing their use with `Rc::from`.
This PR is an implementation of [RFC 1974] which specifies a new method of
defining a global allocator for a program. This obsoletes the old
`#![allocator]` attribute and also removes support for it.
[RFC 1974]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/197
The new `#[global_allocator]` attribute solves many issues encountered with the
`#![allocator]` attribute such as composition and restrictions on the crate
graph itself. The compiler now has much more control over the ABI of the
allocator and how it's implemented, allowing much more freedom in terms of how
this feature is implemented.
cc #27389
It was decided in the RFC discussion https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1954 to make the function call syntax Rc::clone(&foo) the idiomatic way to clone a reference counted pointer (over the method call syntax foo.clone(). This change updates the documentation of Rc, Arc and their respoective Weak pointers to reflect it and bring more exposure to the existence of the function call syntax.
refactor NonZero, Shared, and Unique APIs
Major difference is that I removed Deref impls, as apparently LLVM has
trouble maintaining metadata with a `&ptr -> &ptr` API. This was cited
as a blocker for ever stabilizing this API. It wasn't that ergonomic
anyway.
* Added `get` to NonZero to replace Deref impl
* Added `ptr` getter to Shared/Unique to replace Deref impl
* Added Unique's `get` and `get_mut` conveniences to Shared
* Deprecated `as_mut_ptr` on Shared in favour of `ptr`
Note that Shared used to primarily expose only `*const` but there isn't
a good justification for that, so I made it `*mut`.
This reverts commit 7f1d1c6d9a.
The original commit was created because mdBook and rustdoc had
different generation algorithms for header links; now with
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/39966 , the algorithms
are the same. So let's undo this change.
... when I came across this problem, I said "eh, this isn't fun,
but it doesn't take that long." I probably should have just actually
taken the time to fix upstream, given that they were amenable. Oh
well!
Add `{into,from}_raw` to Rc and Arc
These methods convert to and from a `*const T` for `Rc` and `Arc` similar to the way they work on `Box`. The only slight complication is that `from_raw` needs to offset the pointer back to find the beginning of the `RcBox`/`ArcInner`.
I felt this is a fairly small addition, filling in a gap (when compared to `Box`) so it wouldn't need an RFC. The motivation is primarily for FFI.
(I'll create an issue and update a PR with the issue number if reviewers agree with the change in principle **Edit: done #37197**)
~~Edit: This was initially `{into,from}_raw` but concerns were raised about the possible footgun if mixed with the methods of the same name of `Box`.~~
Edit: This was went from `{into,from}_raw` to `{into,from}_inner_raw` then back to `{into,from}_raw` during review.
