Add overview documentation for std::mem.#153793
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I heard that `std::mem` sounds scary to some people, and how it’s described — “Basic functions for dealing with memory” — sounds even to me like something that should be avoided, not even because it would be unsafe, but because it is too low-level. Let’s fix that by telling people about what they can actually find in the module, without having to read all the individual item descriptions.
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Add overview documentation for `std::mem`. I heard that `std::mem` sounds scary to some people, and how it’s described — “Basic functions for dealing with memory” — sounds even to me like something that should be avoided, not even because it would be unsafe, but because it is too low-level. Let’s fix that by telling people about what they can actually find in the module, without having to read all the individual item descriptions. The exact contents of the list are, of course, highly debatable, and I chose not to include any of the unstable or deprecated items, nor to include `Discriminant` as well as `discriminant`. I’m also not particularly happy with the wording of the introductory paragraph.
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Add overview documentation for `std::mem`. I heard that `std::mem` sounds scary to some people, and how it’s described — “Basic functions for dealing with memory” — sounds even to me like something that should be avoided, not even because it would be unsafe, but because it is too low-level. Let’s fix that by telling people about what they can actually find in the module, without having to read all the individual item descriptions. The exact contents of the list are, of course, highly debatable, and I chose not to include any of the unstable or deprecated items, nor to include `Discriminant` as well as `discriminant`. I’m also not particularly happy with the wording of the introductory paragraph.
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Rollup of 6 pull requests Successful merges: - #153639 (Remove `QueryInfo`.) - #153570 (MaybeUninit: mention common mistakes in assume_init docs; link to validity invariant docs) - #153793 (Add overview documentation for `std::mem`.) - #153884 (test `classify-runtime-const` for `f16`) - #153922 (rustc_mir_build only depends on rustc_lint_defs, not rustc_lint) - #153928 (remove several redundant tests)
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Add overview documentation for `std::mem`. I heard that `std::mem` sounds scary to some people, and how it’s described — “Basic functions for dealing with memory” — sounds even to me like something that should be avoided, not even because it would be unsafe, but because it is too low-level. Let’s fix that by telling people about what they can actually find in the module, without having to read all the individual item descriptions. The exact contents of the list are, of course, highly debatable, and I chose not to include any of the unstable or deprecated items, nor to include `Discriminant` as well as `discriminant`. I’m also not particularly happy with the wording of the introductory paragraph.
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Rollup of 7 pull requests Successful merges: - #153639 (Remove `QueryInfo`.) - #153570 (MaybeUninit: mention common mistakes in assume_init docs; link to validity invariant docs) - #153793 (Add overview documentation for `std::mem`.) - #153922 (rustc_mir_build only depends on rustc_lint_defs, not rustc_lint) - #153923 (run_make_support: Print the command and output even if it succeeds) - #153925 (Provide better suggestions for inference errors on `.collect()?`) - #153928 (remove several redundant tests)
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Rollup of 8 pull requests Successful merges: - #153639 (Remove `QueryInfo`.) - #153570 (MaybeUninit: mention common mistakes in assume_init docs; link to validity invariant docs) - #153724 (Show named lifetime in closure upvar diagnostics) - #153793 (Add overview documentation for `std::mem`.) - #153922 (rustc_mir_build only depends on rustc_lint_defs, not rustc_lint) - #153923 (run_make_support: Print the command and output even if it succeeds) - #153925 (Provide better suggestions for inference errors on `.collect()?`) - #153928 (remove several redundant tests)
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I heard that
std::memsounds scary to some people, and how it’s described — “Basic functions for dealing with memory” — sounds even to me like something that should be avoided, not even because it would be unsafe, but because it is too low-level.Let’s fix that by telling people about what they can actually find in the module, without having to read all the individual item descriptions.
The exact contents of the list are, of course, highly debatable, and I chose not to include any of the unstable or deprecated items, nor to include
Discriminantas well asdiscriminant. I’m also not particularly happy with the wording of the introductory paragraph.