Module possibly_uninit::cast [−][src]
Helpers for casting between smart pointer types.
This module attempts to abstract casting operations between various smart pointer types as well as non-pointer types. While it succeeds at its goal in some ways, it fails in other ways.
Unfortunately it’s a bunch of unsafe code and it reached the point at
which I’m not as confident in its soundness as I would like to be.
Currently it mainly attempts to enable Cursor::try_cast_initialized to
work with all kinds of sensible arrays: [T; N], UniqueRefType[T; N],
UniqueRefType<[T]> for T and MaybeUninit<T>. It does work for
MaybeUninit<T> arrays but not for T arrays. Which isn’t too important
right now, but it’d be nice to resolve it.
Traits
| ArrTc | Array type constructor |
| CastArrHelper | A trick to work arround the limitation of Rust where the compiler can’t understand that two impls with different associated types aren’t conflicting. |
| InitTc | Initialization type constructor |
| PointerMut | Trait for unique smart pointers/references containing |
| PtrTc | Type constructor for smart pointer types |
| SlicePointerMut | Trait for unique smart pointers/references containing slices, allowing casting between them. |