Specifically, ISO/IEC 9899:2018 — better known as "C18" — (and at least
C11, C99 and C89) do not specify the size of `byte` in bits.
Section 3.6 defines "byte" as "addressable unit of data storage" while
section 6.2.5 ("Types") only defines "char" as "large enough to store
any member of the basic execution set" giving it a lower bound of 7 bit
(since there are 96 characters in the basic execution set).
With section 6.5.3.4 paragraph 4 "When sizeof is applied to an operant
that has type char […] the result is 1" you could read this as the size
of `char` in bits being defined as exactly the same as the number of
bits in a byte but it's also valid to read that as an exception.
In general implementations take `char` as the smallest unit of
addressable memory, which for modern byte-addressed architectures is
overwhelmingly 8 bits to the point of this convention being completely
cemented into just about all of our software.
So is any of this actually relevant at all? I hope not. I sincerely hope
that this never, ever comes up.
But if for some reason a poor rustacean is having to interface with C
code running on a Cray X1 that in 2003 is still doing word-addressed
memory with 64-bit words and they trust the docs here blindly it will
blow up in her face. And I'll be truly sorry for her to have to deal
with … all of that.
Rollup of 10 pull requests
Successful merges:
- #87960 (Suggest replacing an inexisting field for an unmentioned field)
- #88855 (Allow simd_shuffle to accept vectors of any length)
- #88966 (Check for shadowing issues involving block labels)
- #88996 (Fix linting when trailing macro expands to a trailing semi)
- #89017 (fix potential race in AtomicU64 time monotonizer)
- #89021 (Add a separate error for `dyn Trait` in `const fn`)
- #89051 (Add intra-doc links and small changes to `std::os` to be more consistent)
- #89053 (refactor: VecDeques IntoIter fields to private)
- #89055 (Suggest better place to add call parentheses for method expressions wrapped in parentheses)
- #89081 (Fix a typo)
Failed merges:
r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
refactor: VecDeques IntoIter fields to private
Made the fields of VecDeque's IntoIter private by creating a IntoIter::from(...) function to create a new instance of IntoIter and migrating usage to use IntoIter::from(...).
Add intra-doc links and small changes to `std::os` to be more consistent
I believe that a few items in `std::os` should be linked. I've also added a basic example in `std::os::windows`.
fix potential race in AtomicU64 time monotonizer
The AtomicU64-based monotonizer introduced in #83093 is incorrect because several threads could try to update the value concurrently and a thread which doesn't have the newest value among all the updates could win.
That bug probably has little real world impact since it doesn't make observed time worse than hardware clocks. The worst case would probably be a thread which has a clock that is behind by several cycles observing several inconsistent fixups, which should be similar to observing the unfiltered backslide in the first place.
New benchmarks, they don't look as good as the original PR but still an improvement compared to the mutex.
I don't know why the contended mutex case is faster now than in the previous benchmarks.
```
actually_monotonic() == true:
test time::tests::instant_contention_01_threads ... bench: 44 ns/iter (+/- 0)
test time::tests::instant_contention_02_threads ... bench: 45 ns/iter (+/- 0)
test time::tests::instant_contention_04_threads ... bench: 45 ns/iter (+/- 0)
test time::tests::instant_contention_08_threads ... bench: 45 ns/iter (+/- 0)
test time::tests::instant_contention_16_threads ... bench: 46 ns/iter (+/- 0)
atomic u64:
test time::tests::instant_contention_01_threads ... bench: 66 ns/iter (+/- 0)
test time::tests::instant_contention_02_threads ... bench: 287 ns/iter (+/- 14)
test time::tests::instant_contention_04_threads ... bench: 296 ns/iter (+/- 43)
test time::tests::instant_contention_08_threads ... bench: 604 ns/iter (+/- 163)
test time::tests::instant_contention_16_threads ... bench: 1,147 ns/iter (+/- 29)
mutex:
test time::tests::instant_contention_01_threads ... bench: 78 ns/iter (+/- 0)
test time::tests::instant_contention_02_threads ... bench: 652 ns/iter (+/- 275)
test time::tests::instant_contention_04_threads ... bench: 900 ns/iter (+/- 32)
test time::tests::instant_contention_08_threads ... bench: 1,927 ns/iter (+/- 62)
test time::tests::instant_contention_16_threads ... bench: 3,748 ns/iter (+/- 146)
```
Avoid codegen for Result::into_ok in lang_start
This extra codegen seems to be the cause for the regressions in max-rss on #86034. While LLVM will certainly optimize the dead code away, avoiding it's generation in the first place seems good, particularly when it is so simple.
#86034 produced this [diff](https://gist.github.com/Mark-Simulacrum/95c7599883093af3b960c35ffadf4dab#file-86034-diff) for a simple `fn main() {}`. With this PR, that diff [becomes limited to just a few extra IR instructions](https://gist.github.com/Mark-Simulacrum/95c7599883093af3b960c35ffadf4dab#file-88988-from-pre-diff) -- no extra functions.
Note that these are pre-optimization; LLVM surely will eliminate this during optimization. However, that optimization can end up generating more work and bump memory usage, and this eliminates that.
Allow `panic!("{}", computed_str)` in const fn.
Special-case `panic!("{}", arg)` and translate it to `panic_display(&arg)`. `panic_display` will behave like `panic_any` in cosnt eval and behave like `panic!(format_args!("{}", arg))` in runtime.
This should bring Rust 2015 and 2021 to feature parity in terms of `const_panic`; and hopefully would unblock the stabilisation of #51999.
`@rustbot` modify labels: +T-compiler +T-libs +A-const-eval +A-const-fn
r? `@oli-obk`
Add chown functions to std::os::unix::fs to change the owner and group of files
This is a straightforward wrapper that uses the existing helpers for C
string handling and errno handling.
Having this available is convenient for UNIX utility programs written in
Rust, and avoids having to call unsafe functions like `libc::chown`
directly and handle errors manually, in a program that may otherwise be
entirely safe code.
In addition, these functions provide a more Rustic interface by
accepting appropriate traits and using `None` rather than `-1`.
Add TcpListener::into_incoming and IntoIncoming
The `incoming` method is really useful, however for some use cases the borrow
this introduces is needlessly restricting. Thus, an owned variant is added.
r? ``@joshtriplett``
The RefCell is now borrowed exactly once. In addition a code sequence
that contains an unwrap that is guaranteed to never panic at runtime is
replaced with get_or_insert_with, which makes the intended behavior
clearer and will not emit code to panic even without optimizations.
Previously the thread name would first be heap allocated and then
re-allocated to add a nul terminator. Now it will be heap allocated only
once with nul terminator added form the start.
This is a straightforward wrapper that uses the existing helpers for C
string handling and errno handling.
Having this available is convenient for UNIX utility programs written in
Rust, and avoids having to call unsafe functions like `libc::chown`
directly and handle errors manually, in a program that may otherwise be
entirely safe code.
In addition, these functions provide a more Rustic interface by
accepting appropriate traits and using `None` rather than `-1`.
Most of these are because alloc uses `#[lang_item]` to define methods,
but core documents primitives before those methods are available.
- Fix rustdoc-js-std test
For some reason this change made CStr not show up in the results for
`str,u8`. Since it still shows up for str, and since it wasn't a great
match for that query anyway, I think this is ok to let slide.
- Add test that all primitives can be linked to
- Enable `doc(primitive)` in `core` as well
- Add linkcheck exception specifically for Windows
Ideally this would be done automatically by the linkchecker by
replacing `\\` with forward slashes, but this PR is already a ton of
work ...
- Don't forcibly fail linkchecking if there's a broken intra-doc link on Windows
Previously, it would exit with a hard error if a missing file had `::`
in it. This changes it to report a missing file instead, which allows
adding an exception.
This works by doing two things:
- Adding links that are specific to the crate. Since not all primitive
items are defined in `core` (due to lang_items), these need to use
relative links and not intra-doc links.
- Duplicating `primitive_docs` in both core and std. This allows not needing CARGO_PKG_NAME to build the standard library. It also adds a tidy check to make sure they stay the same.
Reword description of automatic impls of `Unsize`.
The existing documentation felt a little unhelpfully concise, so this change tries to improve it by using longer sentences, each of which specifies which kinds of types it applies to as early as possible. In particular, the third item starts with “Structs ...” instead of saying “Foo is a struct” later.
Also, the previous list items “Only the last field has a type involving `T`” and “`T` is not part of the type of any other fields” are, as far as I see, redundant with each other, so I removed the latter.
I have no particular knowledge of `Unsize`; I have attempted to leave the meaning entirely unchanged but may have missed a nuance.
Markdown preview of the edited documentation:
> All implementations of `Unsize` are provided automatically by the compiler.
> Those implementations are:
>
> - Arrays `[T; N]` implement `Unsize<[T]>`.
> - Types implementing a trait `Trait` also implement `Unsize<dyn Trait>`.
> - Structs `Foo<..., T, ...>` implement `Unsize<Foo<..., U, ...>>` if all of these conditions
> are met:
> - `T: Unsize<U>`.
> - Only the last field of `Foo` has a type involving `T`.
> - `Bar<T>: Unsize<Bar<U>>`, where `Bar<T>` stands for the actual type of that last field.
Add proc_macro::Span::{before, after}.
This adds `proc_macro::Span::before()` and `proc_macro::Span::after()` to get a zero width span at the start or end of the span.
These are equivalent to rustc's `Span::shrink_to_lo()` and `Span::shrink_to_hi()` but with a less cryptic name. They are useful when generating diagnostlics like "missing \<thing\> after \<thing\>".
E.g.
```rust
syn::Error::new(ident.span().after(), "missing `:` after field name").into_compile_error()
```
Correct “copies” to “moves” in `<Option<T> as From<T>>::from` doc, and other copyediting
The `impl<T> From<T> for Option<T>` has no `Copy` or `Clone` bound, so its operation is guaranteed to be a move. The call site might copy, but the function itself cannot.
Since that would have been a rather small PR, I also reviewed the other documentation in the file and made other improvements (in separate commits): adding periods and commas, linking `Deref::Target`, and clarifying what "a container" is in `FromIterator`.
More symbolic doc aliases
A bunch of small changes, mostly adding `#[doc(alias = "…")]` entries for symbolic `"…"`.
Also a small change in documentation of `const` keywords.
Suggest deriving traits if possible
This only applies to builtin derives as I don't think there is a
clean way to get the available derives in typeck.
Closes#85851
BTreeMap/BTreeSet::from_iter: use bulk building to improve the performance
Bulk building is a common technique to increase the performance of building a fresh btree map. Instead of inserting items one-by-one, we sort all the items beforehand then create the BtreeMap in bulk.
Benchmark
```
./x.py bench library/alloc --test-args btree::map::from_iter
```
* Before
```
test btree::map::from_iter_rand_100 ... bench: 3,694 ns/iter (+/- 840)
test btree::map::from_iter_rand_10_000 ... bench: 1,033,446 ns/iter (+/- 192,950)
test btree::map::from_iter_seq_100 ... bench: 5,689 ns/iter (+/- 1,259)
test btree::map::from_iter_seq_10_000 ... bench: 861,033 ns/iter (+/- 118,815)
```
* After
```
test btree::map::from_iter_rand_100 ... bench: 3,033 ns/iter (+/- 707)
test btree::map::from_iter_rand_10_000 ... bench: 775,958 ns/iter (+/- 105,152)
test btree::map::from_iter_seq_100 ... bench: 2,969 ns/iter (+/- 336)
test btree::map::from_iter_seq_10_000 ... bench: 258,292 ns/iter (+/- 29,364)
```
Document when to use Windows' `symlink_dir` vs. `symlink_file`
It was previously unclear why there are two functions and when they should be used.
Fixes: #88635
Add links in docs for some primitive types
This pull request adds additional links in existing documentation of some of the primitive types.
Where items are linked only once, I have used the `[link](destination)` format. For items in `std`, I have linked directly to the HTML, since although the primitives are in `core`, they are not displayed on `core` documentation. I was unsure of what length I should keep lines of documentation to, so I tried to keep them within reason.
Additionally, I have avoided excessively linking to keywords like `self` when they are not relevant to the documentation. I can add these links if it would be an improvement.
I hope this can improve Rust. Please let me know if there's anything I did wrong!
aarch64 prior to v8.4 (FEAT_LSE2) doesn't have an instruction that guarantees
untorn 128b reads except for completing a 128b load/store exclusive pair
(ldxp/stxp) or compare-and-swap (casp) successfully. The requirement to
complete a 128b read+write atomic is actually more expensive and more unfair
than the previous implementation of monotonize() which used a Mutex on aarch64,
especially at large core counts. For aarch64 switch to the 64b atomic
implementation which is about 13x faster for a benchmark that involves many
calls to Instant::now().
This implementation has no `Copy` or `Clone` bound, so its operation is
guaranteed to be a move. The call site might copy, but the function
itself cannot.
Also linkify `Some` while we're touching the line anyway.
remove redundant / misplaced sentence from docs
Removes sentence that seems to have drifted down into the examples section. Luckily, someone already added an explanation of what happens with packed structs back into the initial section of the doc entry and this wayward sentence can likely just be deleted.
Add an example for deriving PartialOrd on enums
For some reason, I always forget which variants are smaller and which
are larger when you derive PartialOrd on an enum. And the wording in the
current docs is not entirely clear to me.
So, I often end up making a small enum, deriving PartialOrd on it, and
then writing a `#[test]` with an assert that the top one is smaller than
the bottom one (or the other way around) to figure out which way the
deriving goes.
So then I figured, it would be great if the standard library docs just
had that example, so if I keep forgetting, at least I can figure it out
quickly by looking at std's docs.
There is a known bug in the implementation of mpsc channels in rust.
This adds a clearer error message when the bug occurs, so that developers don't lose too much time looking for the origin of the bug.
See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39364
`fmt::Formatter::pad`: don't call chars().count() more than one time
First commit merges two branches of match to call chars().count() only once: that should be faster if this method hits place of 3rd (previous) branch, plus quarter shorter.
Second commit fixes some clippy lints while i'm here (should it be separate PR?).
Stabilize std::os::unix::fs::chroot
I've verified that this works as documented, and I've tested it in (a nightly
build of) production software as a replacement for an unsafe call to
`libc::chroot`. It's been available in nightly for a few releases. I think it's
ready to stabilize.
---
Tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/84715
Allow writing of incomplete UTF-8 sequences to the Windows console via stdout/stderr
# Problem
Writes of just an incomplete UTF-8 byte sequence (e.g. `b"\xC3"` or `b"\xF0\x9F"`) to stdout/stderr with a Windows console attached error with `io::ErrorKind::InvalidData, "Windows stdio in console mode does not support writing non-UTF-8 byte sequences"` even though further writes could complete the codepoint. This is currently a rare occurence since the [linewritershim](2c56ea38b0/library/std/src/io/buffered/linewritershim.rs) implementation flushes complete lines immediately and buffers up to 1024 bytes for incomplete lines. It can still happen as described in #83258.
The problem will become more pronounced once the developer can switch stdout/stderr from line-buffered to block-buffered or immediate when the changes in the "Switchable buffering for Stdout" pull request (#78515) get merged.
# Patch description
If there is at least one valid UTF-8 codepoint all valid UTF-8 is passed through to the extracted `write_valid_utf8_to_console()` fn. The new code only comes into play if `write()` is being passed a short byte slice comprising an incomplete UTF-8 codepoint. In this case up to three bytes are buffered in the `IncompleteUtf8` struct associated with `Stdout` / `Stderr`. The bytes are accepted one at a time. As soon as an error can be detected `io::ErrorKind::InvalidData, "Windows stdio in console mode does not support writing non-UTF-8 byte sequences"` is returned. Once a complete UTF-8 codepoint is received it is passed to the `write_valid_utf8_to_console()` and the buffer length is set to zero.
Calling `flush()` will neither error nor write anything if an incomplete codepoint is present in the buffer.
# Tests
Currently there are no Windows-specific tests for console writing code at all. Writing (regression) tests for this problem is a bit challenging since unit tests and UI tests don't run in a console and suddenly popping up another console window might be surprising to developers running the testsuite and it might not work at all in CI builds. To just test the new functionality in unit tests the code would need to be refactored. Some guidance on how to proceed would be appreciated.
# Public API changes
* `std::str::verifications::utf8_char_width()` would be exposed as `std::str::utf8_char_width()` behind the "str_internals" feature gate.
# Related issues
* Fixes#83258.
* PR #78515 will exacerbate the problem.
# Open questions
* Add tests?
* Squash into one commit with better commit message?
Stabilize `UnsafeCell::raw_get()`
This PR stabilizes the associated function `UnsafeCell::raw_get()`. The FCP has [already completed](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/66358#issuecomment-899095068). While there was some discussion about the naming after the close of the FCP, it looks like people have agreed on this name. Still, it would probably be best if a `libs-api` member had a look at this and stated whether more discussion is needed.
While I was at it, I added some tests for `UnsafeCell`, because there were barely any.
Closes#66358.
Use the return value of readdir_r() instead of errno
POSIX says:
> If successful, the readdir_r() function shall return zero; otherwise,
> an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.
But we were previously using errno instead of the return value. This
led to issue #86649.
BTree: remove Ord bound from new
`K: Ord` bound is unnecessary on `BTree{Map,Set}::new` and their `Default` impl. No elements exist so there are nothing to compare anyway, so I don't think "future proof" would be a blocker here. This is analogous to `HashMap::new` not having a `K: Eq + Hash` bound.
#79245 originally does this and for some reason drops the change to `new` and `Default`. I can see why changes to other methods like `entry` or `symmetric_difference` need to be careful but I couldn't find out any reason not to do it on `new`.
Removing the bound also makes the stabilisation of `const fn new` not depending on const trait bounds.
cc `@steffahn` who suggests me to make this PR.
r? `@dtolnay`
POSIX says:
> If successful, the readdir_r() function shall return zero; otherwise,
> an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.
But we were previously using errno instead of the return value. This
led to issue #86649.
Add `TcpStream::set_linger` and `TcpStream::linger`
Adds methods for getting/setting the `SO_LINGER` option on TCP sockets. Behavior is consistent across Unix and Windows.
r? `@joshtriplett` (I noticed you've been reviewing net related PRs)
Add carrying_add, borrowing_sub, widening_mul, carrying_mul methods to integers
This comes in part from my own attempts to make (crude) big integer implementations, and also due to the stalled discussion in [RFC 2417](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2417). My understanding is that changes like these are best offered directly as code and then an RFC can be opened if there needs to be more discussion before stabilisation. Since all of these methods are unstable from the start, I figured I might as well offer them now.
I tried looking into intrinsics, messed around with a few different implementations, and ultimately concluded that these are "good enough" implementations for now to at least put up some code and maybe start bikeshedding on a proper API for these.
For the `carrying_add` and `borrowing_sub`, I tried looking into potential architecture-specific code and realised that even using the LLVM intrinsics for `addcarry` and `subborrow` on x86 specifically, I was getting exactly the same assembly as the naive implementation using `overflowing_add` and `overflowing_sub`, although the LLVM IR did differ because of the architecture-specific code. Longer-term I think that they would be best suited to specific intrinsics as that would make optimisations easier (instructions like add-carry tend to use implicit flags, and thus can only be optimised if they're done one-after-another, and thus it would make the most sense to have compact intrinsics that can be merged together easily).
For `widening_mul` and `carrying_mul`, for now at least, I simply cast to the larger type and perform arithmetic that way, since we currently have no intrinsic that would work better for 128-bit integers. In the future, I also think that some form of intrinsic would work best to cover that case, but for now at least, I think that they're "good enough" for now.
The main reasoning for offering these directly to the standard library even though they're relatively niche optimisations is to help ensure that the code generated for them is optimal. Plus, these operations alone aren't enough to create big integer implementations, although they could help simplify the code required to do so and make it a bit more accessible for the average implementor.
That said, I 100% understand if any or all of these methods are not desired simply because of how niche they are. Up to you. 🤷🏻
Document `std::env::current_exe` possible rename behaviour
It might not be obvious that the "path of the current running executable" may (or may not) imply "at the time it was loaded".
This came up recently in chat so I thought it might be worth documenting.
I intend these changes to be helpful to readers who are not yet familiar
with the quirks of floating-point numbers. Additionally, I felt it was
misleading to describe `Nan` as being the result of division by zero,
since most divisions by zero (except for 0/0) produce `Infinite` floats,
so I moved that remark to the `Infinite` variant with adjustment.
The first sentence of the `Nan` documentation is copied from `f32`;
I followed the example of the `f64` documentation by referring to `f32`
for general concepts, rather than duplicating the text.
fix: move test that require mut to another
Adding TODOs for Option::take and Option::copied
TODO to FIXME + moving const stability under normal
Moving const stability attr under normal stab attr
move more rustc stability attributes
Update the stdarch submodule
This notably brings in a number of codegen updates to ensure that wasm
simd intrinsics generate the expected instruction with LLVM 13
Bulk building is a common technique to increase the performance of
building a fresh btree map. Instead of inserting items one-by-one,
we sort all the items beforehand then create the BtreeMap in bulk.
Add Saturating type (based on Wrapping type)
Tracking #87920
### Unresolved Questions
<!--
Include any open questions that need to be answered before the feature can be
stabilised.
-->
- [x] ~`impl Div for Saturating<T>` falls back on inner integer division - which seems alright?~
- [x] add `saturating_div`? (to respect division by `-1`)
- [x] There is no `::saturating_shl` and `::saturating_shr`. (How to) implement `Shl`, `ShlAssign`, `Shr` and `ShrAssign`?
- [naively](3f7d2ce28f)
- [x] ~`saturating_neg` is only implemented on [signed integer types](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/?search=saturating_n)~
- [x] Is the implementation copied over from the `Wrapping`-type correct for `Saturating`?
- [x] `Saturating::rotate_left`
- [x] `Saturating::rotate_right`
- [x] `Not`
- [x] `BitXorOr` and `BitXorOrAssign`
- [x] `BitOr` and `BitOrAssign`
- [x] `BitAnd` and `BitAndAssign`
- [x] `Saturating::swap_bytes`
- [x] `Saturating::reverse_bits`
The `incoming` method is really useful, however for some use cases the borrow
this introduces is needlessly restricting. Thus, an owned variant is added.
Add `c_size_t` and `c_ssize_t` to `std::os::raw`.
Apparently these aren't guaranteed to be the same, and are merely "always the same in practice" (see https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/136281-t-lang.2Fwg-unsafe-code-guidelines/topic/.60usize.60.20vs.20.60size_t.60).
This is a big footgun, but I suspect it can be alleviated if we expose this and start migrating people to it in advance of any platforms that ever have this as different.
I'll file a tracking issue after this gets some traction.
Use if-let guards in the codebase and various other pattern cleanups
Dogfooding if-let guards as experimentation for the feature.
Tracking issue #51114. Conflicts with #87937.
Stabilise BufWriter::into_parts
The FCP for this has already completed, in #80690.
This was just blocked on #85901 (which changed the name), which is now merged. The original stabilisation MR was #84770 but that has a lot of noise in it, and I also accidentally deleted the branch while trying to tidy up. So here is a new MR. Sorry for the noise.
Closes#80690
Errorkind reorder
I was doing a bit more work in this area and the untidiness of these two orderings bothered me.
The commit messages have the detailed rationale. For your convenience, I c&p them here:
```
io::ErrorKind: rationalise ordering in main enum
It is useful to keep some coherent structure to this ordering. In
particular, Other and Uncategorized should be next to each other, at
the end.
Also it seems to make sense to treat UnexpectedEof and OutOfMemory
specially, since they are not like the other errors (despite
OutOfMemory also being generatable by some OS errors).
So:
* Move Other to the end, just before Uncategorized
* Move Unsupported to between Interrupted and UnexpectedEof
* Add some comments documenting where to add things
```
```
io::Error: alphabeticise the match in as_str()
There was no rationale for the previous ordering.
```
r? kennytm since that's who rust-highfive picked before, in #88294 which I accidentally closed.
Add SAFETY comments to core::slice::sort::partition_in_blocks
A few more SAFETY comments for #66219. There are still a few more in this module.
`@rustbot` label T-libs T-compiler C-cleanup
Fix references to `ControlFlow` in docs
The `Iterator::for_each` method previously stated that it was not possible to use `break` and `continue` in it — this has been updated to acknowledge the stabilization of `ControlFlow`. Additionally, `ControlFlow` was referred to as `crate::ops::ControlFlow` which is not the correct path for an end user.
r? `@jyn514`
Fix typo “a Rc” → “an Rc” (and a few more)
After stumbling about it in the dev-guide, I’ve devided to eliminate all mentions of “a Rc”, replacing it with “an Rc”. E.g.
```plain
$ rg "(^|[^'])\ba\b[^\w=:]*\bRc"
compiler/rustc_data_structures/src/owning_ref/mod.rs
1149:/// Typedef of a owning reference that uses a `Rc` as the owner.
library/std/src/ffi/os_str.rs
919: /// Converts a [`OsString`] into a [`Rc`]`<OsStr>` without copying or allocating.
library/std/src/ffi/c_str.rs
961: /// Converts a [`CString`] into a [`Rc`]`<CStr>` without copying or allocating.
src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/query.md
61:are cheaply cloneable; insert a `Rc` if necessary).
src/doc/book/src/ch15-06-reference-cycles.md
72:decreases the reference count of the `a` `Rc<List>` instance from 2 to 1 as
library/alloc/src/rc.rs
1746: /// Converts a generic type `T` into a `Rc<T>`
```
_(the match in the book is a false positive)_
Since the dev-guide is a submodule, it’s getting a separate PR: rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide#1191
I’ve also gone ahead and done the same search for `RwLock` and hit a few cases in the `OwningRef` adaption. Then, I couldn’t keep the countless cases of “a owning …” or “a owner” unaddressed, which concludes this PR.
`@rustbot` label C-cleanup
Adjust / fix documentation of `Arc::make_mut`
Related discussion in the users forum:
[Whatʼs this alleged difference between Arc::make_mut and Rc::make_mut? – The Rust Programming Language Forum](https://users.rust-lang.org/t/what-s-this-alleged-difference-between-arc-make-mut-and-rc-make-mut/63747?u=steffahn)
Also includes a small formatting improvement in the documentation of `Rc::make_mut`.
This PR makes the two documentations in question complete analogs. The previously claimed point in which one “differs from the behavior of” the other turns out to be incorrect, AFAIK.
One remaining inaccuracy: `Weak` pointers aren’t disassociated from the allocation but only from the contained value, i.e. in case of outstanding `Weak` pointers there still is a new allocation created, just the call to `.clone()` is avoided, instead the value is moved from one allocation to the other.
`@rustbot` label T-libs-api, A-docs
add Cell::as_array_of_cells, similar to Cell::as_slice_of_cells
I'd like to propose adding `Cell::as_array_of_cells`, as a natural analog to `Cell::as_slice_of_cells`. I don't have a specific use case in mind, other than that supporting slices but not arrays feels like a gap. Do other folks agree with that intuition? Would this addition be substantial enough to need an RFC?
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Previously, converting `&mut [T; N]` to `&[Cell<T>; N]` looks like this:
```rust
let array = &mut [1, 2, 3];
let cells: &[Cell<i32>; 3] = Cell::from_mut(&mut array[..])
.as_slice_of_cells()
.try_into()
.unwrap();
```
With this new helper method, it looks like this:
```rust
let array = &mut [1, 2, 3];
let cells = Cell::from_mut(array).as_array_of_cells();
```
These structs have misleading names. An ExitStatus[Error] is actually
a Unix wait status; an ExitCode is actually an exit status.
The Display impls are fixed, but the Debug impls are still misleading,
as reported in #74832.
Fix this by pretending that these internal structs are called
`unix_exit_status` and `unix_wait_status` as applicable. (We can't
actually rename the structs because of the way that the cross-platform
machinery works: the names are cross-platform.)
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
