Specifically: all enums with two variants, where one has zero size (and thus at most one inhabitant) and the other has a field where the null value would not be allowed (such as a safe pointer), are now represented by storing a null pointer in the field in question.
This is a generalization of representing `Option<~T>`, `Option<@T>`, and `Option<&T>` with nullable pointers, thus fixing Tony Hoare's “billion dollar mistake”.
```rust
use core::cell;
fn main() {
let x = cell::Cell(Some(~"foo"));
let y = x.value.get_ref().get_ref();
do x.with_mut_ref |z| { *z = None; }
println(*y) // boom!
}
```
use core::cell;
fn main() {
let x = cell::Cell(Some(~"foo"));
let y = x.value.get_ref().get_ref();
do x.with_mut_ref |z| { *z = None; }
println(*y) // boom!
}
Things like the GC heap and unwinding are desirable everywhere the language
might be used, not just in tasks. All Rust code should have access to
LocalServices.
This renaming, proposed in the [Numeric Bikeshed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Bikeshed-Numeric-Traits#rename-modulo-into-rem-or-remainder-in-traits-and-docs), will allow us to implement div and and modulo methods that follow the conventional mathematical definitions for negative numbers without altering the definitions of the operators (and confusing systems programmers). Here is a useful answer on StackOverflow that explains the difference between `div`/`mod` and `quot`/`rem` in Haskell: (When is the difference between quotRem and divMod useful?)[http://stackoverflow.com/a/339823/679485].
This is part of the numeric trait reforms tracked in issue #4819.
Partial fix for #5985
shootout-fasta-redux.rs was calling fwrite with u64 arguments that should have been size_t, which broke on 32-bit systems. I replaced the casts to u64 by casts to size_t.
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As the name suggests this replaces many instances of cast::reinterpret_cast by cast::transmute. It's essentially the boring part of fixing #5163, the remaining reinterpret_casts should be more tricky to remove (unless I missed a boring case).
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