Place unions, pointer casts and pointer derefs behind extra feature gates
To ensure we don't stabilize these things together with const fn stabilization (or any other stabilization)
This PR moves union field accesses inside `const fn` behind a feature gate. It was possible without a feature gate before, but since `const fn` was behind a feature gate we can do this change.
While "dereferencing raw pointers" and "casting raw pointers to usize" were hard errors before this PR, one could work around them by abusing unions:
```rust
// deref
union Foo<T> {
x: &'static T,
y: *const T,
}
const FOO: u32 = unsafe { *Foo { y: 42 as *const T }.x };
// as usize cast
union Bar<T> {
x: usize,
y: *const T,
}
const BAR: usize = unsafe { Bar { y: &1u8 }.x };
```
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cc @nikomatsakis
Rename Executor trait to Spawn
Renames the `Executor` trait to `Spawn` and the method on `Context` to `spawner`.
Note: Best only merge this after we've the alpha 3 announcement post ready.
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Provide `{to,from}_{ne,le,be}_bytes` functions on integers
If one doesn't view integers as containers of bytes, converting them to
bytes necessarily needs the specfication of encoding.
I think Rust is a language that wants to be explicit. The `to_bytes`
function is basically the opposite of that – it converts an integer into
the native byte representation, but there's no mention (in the function
name) of it being very much platform dependent. Therefore, I think it
would be better to replace that method by three methods, the explicit
`to_ne_bytes` ("native endian") which does the same thing and
`to_{le,be}_bytes` which return the little- resp. big-endian encoding.
If one doesn't view integers as containers of bytes, converting them to
bytes necessarily needs the specfication of encoding.
I think Rust is a language that wants to be explicit. The `to_bytes`
function is basically the opposite of that – it converts an integer into
the native byte representation, but there's no mention (in the function
name) of it being very much platform dependent. Therefore, I think it
would be better to replace that method by three methods, the explicit
`to_ne_bytes` ("native endian") which does the same thing and
`to_{le,be}_bytes` which return the little- resp. big-endian encoding.
slices: fix ZST slice iterators making up pointers; debug_assert alignment in from_raw_parts
This fixes the problem that we are fabricating pointers out of thin air. I also managed to share more code between the mutable and shared iterators, while reducing the amount of macros.
I am not sure how useful it really is to add a `debug_assert!` in libcore. Everybody gets a release version of that anyway, right? Is there at least a CI job that runs the test suite with a debug version?
Fixes#42789
Rollup of 15 pull requests
Successful merges:
- #52793 (Add test for NLL: unexpected "free region `` does not outlive" error )
- #52799 (Use BitVector for global sets of AttrId)
- #52809 (Add test for unexpected region for local data ReStatic)
- #52834 ([NLL] Allow conflicting borrows of promoted length zero arrays)
- #52835 (Fix Alias intra doc ICE)
- #52854 (fix memrchr in miri)
- #52899 (tests/ui: Add missing mips{64} ignores)
- #52908 (Use SetLenOnDrop in Vec::truncate())
- #52915 (Don't count MIR locals as borrowed after StorageDead when finding locals live across a yield terminator)
- #52926 (rustc: Trim down the `rust_2018_idioms` lint group)
- #52930 (rustc_resolve: record single-segment extern crate import resolutions.)
- #52939 (Make io::Read::read_to_end consider io::Take::limit)
- #52942 (Another SmallVec.extend optimization)
- #52947 (1.27 actually added the `armv5te-unknown-linux-musleabi` target)
- #52954 (async can begin expressions)
Failed merges:
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fix memrchr in miri
The previous PR https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52744 was not enough because it assumed that the split between the `mid` and `end` parts returned by `align_to` was aligned. But really the only guarantee we have is that the `mid` part is aligned, so make use of that.
Fix From<LocalWaker>
This is a follow-up to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52640
Fixes `From<LocalWaker>` which is affected by the same accidental drop bug (unless I'm totally mistaken)
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