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@RalfJung RalfJung commented Nov 5, 2019

Triggered by rust-lang/rfcs#2806. Hopefully this helps clarify that joining slices across allocations is not possible in Rust currently.

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//! * A [null] pointer is *never* valid, not even for accesses of [size zero][zst].
//! * All pointers (except for the null pointer) are valid for all operations of
//! [size zero][zst].
//! * For a pointer to be valid, it is necessary (but not always sufficient) that the pointer
//! be *dereferencable*: the memory range of the given size starting at the pointer must all be
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This is fairly abstract and packed -- can we give an example perhaps?

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There's not really a good way (that I can think of) to do that in the current format -- it would need basically a re-write of this section, I think. And the phrasing is similar to our existing docs for, e.g., ptr::offset.

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Ah; alright -- better to have some docs than none. r=me if you are happy with the current state.

Co-Authored-By: Mazdak Farrokhzad <[email protected]>
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RalfJung commented Nov 6, 2019

@bors r=Centril

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📌 Commit 11a48a0 has been approved by Centril

@bors bors added S-waiting-on-bors Status: Waiting on bors to run and complete tests. Bors will change the label on completion. and removed S-waiting-on-author Status: This is awaiting some action (such as code changes or more information) from the author. labels Nov 6, 2019
pietroalbini added a commit to pietroalbini/rust that referenced this pull request Nov 6, 2019
improve from_raw_parts docs

Triggered by rust-lang/rfcs#2806. Hopefully this helps clarify that joining slices across allocations is not possible in Rust currently.

r? @Centril
JohnTitor added a commit to JohnTitor/rust that referenced this pull request Nov 6, 2019
improve from_raw_parts docs

Triggered by rust-lang/rfcs#2806. Hopefully this helps clarify that joining slices across allocations is not possible in Rust currently.

r? @Centril
JohnTitor added a commit to JohnTitor/rust that referenced this pull request Nov 7, 2019
improve from_raw_parts docs

Triggered by rust-lang/rfcs#2806. Hopefully this helps clarify that joining slices across allocations is not possible in Rust currently.

r? @Centril
bors added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 7, 2019
Rollup of 12 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - #65794 (gate rustc_on_unimplemented under rustc_attrs)
 - #65945 (Optimize long-linker-command-line test)
 - #66044 (Improve uninit/zeroed lint)
 - #66076 (HIR docs: mention how to resolve method paths)
 - #66084 (Do not require extra LLVM backends for `x.py test` to pass)
 - #66111 (improve from_raw_parts docs)
 - #66114 (Improve std::thread::Result documentation)
 - #66117 (Fixed PhantomData markers in Arc and Rc)
 - #66146 (Remove unused parameters in `__thread_local_inner`)
 - #66147 (Miri: Refactor to_scalar_ptr out of existence)
 - #66162 (Fix broken link in README)
 - #66171 (Update link on CONTRIBUTING.md)

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@bors bors merged commit 11a48a0 into rust-lang:master Nov 7, 2019
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