explicitly talk about integer literals
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//! [`Global`] allocator with [`Layout::for_value(&*value)`].
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//!
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//! For zero-sized values, the `Box` pointer still has to be [valid] for reads and writes and
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//! sufficiently aligned. In particular, casting any aligned non-zero integer to a raw pointer
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//! produces a valid pointer, but a pointer pointing into previously allocated memory that since got
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//! freed is not valid.
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//! sufficiently aligned. In particular, casting any aligned non-zero integer literal to a raw
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//! pointer produces a valid pointer, but a pointer pointing into previously allocated memory that
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//! since got freed is not valid.
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//!
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//! So long as `T: Sized`, a `Box<T>` is guaranteed to be represented
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//! as a single pointer and is also ABI-compatible with C pointers
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//! within the bounds of a single allocated object. Note that in Rust,
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//! every (stack-allocated) variable is considered a separate allocated object.
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//! * Even for operations of [size zero][zst], the pointer must not be "dangling" in the sense of
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//! pointing to deallocated memory. However, casting any non-zero integer to a pointer is valid
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//! for zero-sized accesses. This corresponds to writing your own allocator; allocating zero-sized
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//! objects is not very hard. In contrast, when you use the standard allocator, after memory got
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//! deallocated, even zero-sized accesses to that memory are invalid.
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//! pointing to deallocated memory. However, casting any non-zero integer literal to a pointer is
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//! valid for zero-sized accesses. This corresponds to writing your own allocator; allocating
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//! zero-sized objects is not very hard. In contrast, when you use the standard allocator, after
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//! memory got deallocated, even zero-sized accesses to that memory are invalid.
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//! * All accesses performed by functions in this module are *non-atomic* in the sense
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//! of [atomic operations] used to synchronize between threads. This means it is
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//! undefined behavior to perform two concurrent accesses to the same location from different
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