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cast the entire slice to a raw pointer, not just the first element #80

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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion src/raw/mod.rs
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Expand Up @@ -357,7 +357,8 @@ impl<T> RawTable<T> {
pub fn new() -> Self {
Self {
data: NonNull::dangling(),
ctrl: NonNull::from(&Group::static_empty()[0]),
// Be careful to cast the entire slice to a raw pointer.
ctrl: unsafe { NonNull::new_unchecked(Group::static_empty().as_ptr() as *mut u8) },
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Btw, the mut cast here is actually meaningful -- the rest of the code must be careful not to write to this! But I suppose that's already the case, this is a shared global static after all.

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