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Document pointer cast semantics #66

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matthewjasper opened this issue Jun 2, 2017 · 1 comment
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Document pointer cast semantics #66

matthewjasper opened this issue Jun 2, 2017 · 1 comment
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#13 documents which casts are possible, as well as the semantics of the casts that don't involve pointers. For pointers it's not clear if a complete set of semantics can be given until the unsafe guidelines/memory model are determined, but maybe some statements can be made.

@matthewjasper matthewjasper changed the title Document point cast semantics Document pointer cast semantics Jun 2, 2017
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bluss commented Aug 19, 2017

Including *const T as *const u8 casts where T: ?Sized.

@Havvy Havvy added Enhancement Improvement in a non-prose section of the book Help Wanted New Content Missing features or aspects of language not currently documented. and removed Enhancement Improvement in a non-prose section of the book labels Sep 24, 2017
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