std: fix sentinel handling in Allocator interface

Currently the only function that handles sentinel terminated slices
properly is free. All other uses of mem.sliceAsBytes() in the allocator
interface lack proper handling of a possible sentinel.

This commit changes the Allocator interface to use @ptrCast() plus
the new mem.absorbSentinel() instead.

This also makes incorrectly passing a pointer to array to
Allocator.free() a compile error. The proper function to free a pointer
to an array is Allocator.destroy().

Reported-by: David Vanderson <[email protected]>
References: #19984
References: #22706
References: #23020

Author: ifreund

lib/std/mem/Allocator.zig

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ pub fn resize(self: Allocator, allocation: anytype, new_len: usize) bool {
     if (allocation.len == 0) {
         return false;
     }
-    const old_memory = mem.sliceAsBytes(allocation);
+    const old_memory: []u8 = @constCast(@ptrCast(mem.absorbSentinel(allocation)));
     // I would like to use saturating multiplication here, but LLVM cannot lower it
     // on WebAssembly: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9660
     //const new_len_bytes = new_len *| @sizeOf(T);
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ pub fn remap(self: Allocator, allocation: anytype, new_len: usize) t: {
     if (allocation.len == 0) {
         return null;
     }
-    const old_memory = mem.sliceAsBytes(allocation);
+    const old_memory: []u8 = @constCast(@ptrCast(mem.absorbSentinel(allocation)));
     // I would like to use saturating multiplication here, but LLVM cannot lower it
     // on WebAssembly: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9660
     //const new_len_bytes = new_len *| @sizeOf(T);
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ pub fn reallocAdvanced(
         return @as([*]align(Slice.alignment) T, @ptrFromInt(ptr))[0..0];
     }
 
-    const old_byte_slice = mem.sliceAsBytes(old_mem);
+    const old_byte_slice: []u8 = @constCast(@ptrCast(mem.absorbSentinel(old_mem)));
     const byte_count = math.mul(usize, @sizeOf(T), new_n) catch return Error.OutOfMemory;
     // Note: can't set shrunk memory to undefined as memory shouldn't be modified on realloc failure
     if (self.rawRemap(old_byte_slice, .fromByteUnits(Slice.alignment), byte_count, return_address)) |p| {
@@ -398,12 +398,10 @@ pub fn reallocAdvanced(
 /// To free a single item, see `destroy`.
 pub fn free(self: Allocator, memory: anytype) void {
     const Slice = @typeInfo(@TypeOf(memory)).pointer;
-    const bytes = mem.sliceAsBytes(memory);
-    const bytes_len = bytes.len + if (Slice.sentinel() != null) @sizeOf(Slice.child) else 0;
-    if (bytes_len == 0) return;
-    const non_const_ptr = @constCast(bytes.ptr);
-    @memset(non_const_ptr[0..bytes_len], undefined);
-    self.rawFree(non_const_ptr[0..bytes_len], .fromByteUnits(Slice.alignment), @returnAddress());
+    const bytes: []u8 = @constCast(@ptrCast(mem.absorbSentinel(memory)));
+    if (bytes.len == 0) return;
+    @memset(bytes, undefined);
+    self.rawFree(bytes, .fromByteUnits(Slice.alignment), @returnAddress());
 }
 
 /// Copies `m` to newly allocated memory. Caller owns the memory.