Rollup merge of #126428 - kpreid:absolute, r=jhpratt

Polish `std::path::absolute` documentation.

These changes bring it closer to other standard library documentation and, in particular, `std::fs::canonicalize`, which it will often be compared with.

* Add `# Platform-specific behavior` section, with content moved from Examples section.
* Create `# Errors` section.
* Phrase error description to allow future platforms to have new syntactic errors, rather than only emptiness.
* Add missing commas.
* Indent example code 4 spaces.
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@ -2302,7 +2302,7 @@ pub fn read_link<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> io::Result<PathBuf> {
///
/// This function currently corresponds to the `realpath` function on Unix
/// and the `CreateFile` and `GetFinalPathNameByHandle` functions on Windows.
/// Note that, this [may change in the future][changes].
/// Note that this [may change in the future][changes].
///
/// On Windows, this converts the path to use [extended length path][path]
/// syntax, which allows your program to use longer path names, but means you

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@ -3345,14 +3345,33 @@ fn description(&self) -> &str {
/// Makes the path absolute without accessing the filesystem.
///
/// If the path is relative, the current directory is used as the base directory.
/// All intermediate components will be resolved according to platforms-specific
/// rules but unlike [`canonicalize`][crate::fs::canonicalize] this does not
/// All intermediate components will be resolved according to platform-specific
/// rules, but unlike [`canonicalize`][crate::fs::canonicalize], this does not
/// resolve symlinks and may succeed even if the path does not exist.
///
/// If the `path` is empty or getting the
/// [current directory][crate::env::current_dir] fails then an error will be
/// [current directory][crate::env::current_dir] fails, then an error will be
/// returned.
///
/// # Platform-specific behavior
///
/// On POSIX platforms, the path is resolved using [POSIX semantics][posix-semantics],
/// except that it stops short of resolving symlinks. This means it will keep `..`
/// components and trailing slashes.
///
/// On Windows, for verbatim paths, this will simply return the path as given. For other
/// paths, this is currently equivalent to calling
/// [`GetFullPathNameW`][windows-path].
///
/// Note that these [may change in the future][changes].
///
/// # Errors
///
/// This function may return an error in the following situations:
///
/// * If `path` is syntactically invalid; in particular, if it is empty.
/// * If getting the [current directory][crate::env::current_dir] fails.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ## POSIX paths
@ -3375,10 +3394,6 @@ fn description(&self) -> &str {
/// # fn main() {}
/// ```
///
/// The path is resolved using [POSIX semantics][posix-semantics] except that
/// it stops short of resolving symlinks. This means it will keep `..`
/// components and trailing slashes.
///
/// ## Windows paths
///
/// ```
@ -3400,10 +3415,6 @@ fn description(&self) -> &str {
/// # fn main() {}
/// ```
///
/// For verbatim paths this will simply return the path as given. For other
/// paths this is currently equivalent to calling
/// [`GetFullPathNameW`][windows-path].
///
/// Note that this [may change in the future][changes].
///
/// [changes]: io#platform-specific-behavior