Relax safety precondition of Ptr::cast_unsized#999
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| /// ranges at which `UnsafeCell`s appear in the projected-from type. | ||
| /// This is necessarily true for projections of struct fields, but not | ||
| /// for all projections of union fields. | ||
| /// - If the aliasing of `self` is Shared, projected pointer must |
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| /// - If the aliasing of `self` is Shared, projected pointer must | |
| /// - If the aliasing of `self` is not `Exclusive`, projected pointer must |
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| /// less than or equal to the size of the object referenced by `self`. | ||
| /// - `UnsafeCell`s in `U` exist at ranges identical to those at which | ||
| /// `UnsafeCell`s exist in `T`. | ||
| /// - if the aliasing of `self` is Shared, that `UnsafeCell`s in `U` |
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| /// - if the aliasing of `self` is Shared, that `UnsafeCell`s in `U` | |
| /// - if the aliasing of `self` is not `Exclusive`, that `UnsafeCell`s in `U` |
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| // invariant on Ptr<'a, T, I>, and preserved through the cast to | ||
| // `U` by contract on the caller. | ||
| // `U` by contract on the caller: | ||
| // - If `ptr` is exclusively aliased, no other references exist. |
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| // - If `ptr` is exclusively aliased, no other references exist. | |
| // - If `ptr` is exclusively aliased, no other live references exist. |
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| /// 11. During the lifetime 'a, no reference will exist to this memory | ||
| /// which treats `UnsafeCell`s as existing at different ranges than | ||
| /// they exist in `T`. | ||
| /// 11. During the lifetime 'a, no live reference will exist to this |
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| /// 11. During the lifetime 'a, no live reference will exist to this | |
| /// 11. During the lifetime 'a, no live reference and no live `Ptr` will exist to this |
We relax the `UnsafeCel` safety precondition on `Ptr` to apply to only live references. We then relax the `UnsafeCell` safety conditions on `cast_unsized` and `project` for exclusively-aliased pointers. This paves the way for removing the `NoCell` bound the `TryFromBytes` derive on unions, and from `try_cast_into`, `try_cast_into_no_leftover`, and finally `TryFromBytes::try_from_mut`.
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Anywhere that we reason about UnsafeCell non-overlap being okay in virtue of exclusive aliasing, we should add:
// TODO(#896), TODO(https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues/495): Blah
// blah blah before the next stable release.
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Superseded by #1211. |
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We relax the
UnsafeCellsafety conditions oncast_unsizedfor exclusively-aliased pointers. This paves the way for removing theNoCellbound fromtry_cast_into,try_cast_into_no_leftover, and finally fromTryFromBytes::try_from_mut.I think this is sound; putting this PR up so we can discuss @joshlf.