This commit removes all unstable and deprecated functions in the standard
library. A release was recently cut (1.3) which makes this a good time for some
spring cleaning of the deprecated functions.
The replacements are functions that usually use a single `mem::transmute` in
their body and restrict input and output via more concrete types than `T` and
`U`. Worth noting are the `transmute` functions for slices and the `from_utf8*`
family for mutable slices. Additionally, `mem::transmute` was often used for
casting raw pointers, when you can already cast raw pointers just fine with
`as`.
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 1184][rfc] which tweaks the behavior of
the `#![no_std]` attribute and adds a new `#![no_core]` attribute. The
`#![no_std]` attribute now injects `extern crate core` at the top of the crate
as well as the libcore prelude into all modules (in the same manner as the
standard library's prelude). The `#![no_core]` attribute disables both std and
core injection.
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1184
Noticed that syntax like `vec![0; 5]` is never mentioned in `Vec<T>`'s docs, nor used in any of its methods' docs, so I figured I should add a mention of it. Also noticed `vec!(1, 2)` being used in one spot while I was at it, so I fixed that as well for consistency's sake.
r? @steveklabnik
Many of these have long since reached their stage of being obsolete, so this
commit starts the removal process for all of them. The unstable features that
were deprecated are:
* cmp_partial
* fs_time
* hash_default
* int_slice
* iter_min_max
* iter_reset_fuse
* iter_to_vec
* map_in_place
* move_from
* owned_ascii_ext
* page_size
* read_and_zero
* scan_state
* slice_chars
* slice_position_elem
* subslice_offset
Per the top level comment:
A low-level utility for more ergonomically allocating, reallocating, and deallocating a
a buffer of memory on the heap without having to worry about all the corner cases
involved. This type is excellent for building your own data structures like Vec and VecDeque.
In particular:
* Produces heap::EMPTY on zero-sized types
* Produces heap::EMPTY on zero-length allocations
* Catches all overflows in capacity computations (promotes them to "capacity overflow" panics)
* Guards against 32-bit systems allocating more than isize::MAX bytes
* Guards against overflowing your length
* Aborts on OOM
* Avoids freeing heap::EMPTY
* Contains a ptr::Unique and thus endows the user with all related benefits
This type does not in anyway inspect the memory that it manages. When dropped it *will*
free its memory, but it *won't* try to Drop its contents. It is up to the user of RawVec
to handle the actual things *stored* inside of a RawVec.
Note that a RawVec always forces its capacity to be usize::MAX for zero-sized types.
This enables you to use capacity growing logic catch the overflows in your length
that might occur with zero-sized types.
However this means that you need to be careful when roundtripping this type
with a `Box<[T]>`: `cap()` won't yield the len. However `with_capacity`,
`shrink_to_fit`, and `from_box` will actually set RawVec's private capacity
field. This allows zero-sized types to not be special-cased by consumers of
this type.
Edit:
fixes#18726 and fixes#23842
We needed a more efficient way to zerofill the vector in read_to_end.
This to reduce the memory intialization overhead to a minimum.
Use the implementation of `std::vec::from_elem` (used for the vec![]
macro) for Vec::resize as well. For simple element types like u8, this
compiles to memset, so it makes Vec::resize much more efficient.
This removes a footgun, since it is a reasonable assumption to make that
pointers to `T` will be aligned to `align_of::<T>()`. This also matches
the behaviour of C/C++. `min_align_of` is now deprecated.
Closes#21611.
This removes a footgun, since it is a reasonable assumption to make that
pointers to `T` will be aligned to `align_of::<T>()`. This also matches
the behaviour of C/C++. `min_align_of` is now deprecated.
Closes#21611.
Instead of a fast branch with a sized iterator falling back to a potentially poorly optimized iterate-and-push loop, a single efficient loop can serve all cases.
In my benchmark runs, I see some good gains, but also some regressions, possibly due to different inlining choices by the compiler. YMMV.
I had to use `impl<'a, V: Copy> Extend<(usize, &'a V)> for VecMap<V>` instead of `impl<'a, V: Copy> Extend<(&'a usize, &'a V)> for VecMap<V>` as that's what is needed for doing
```rust
let mut a = VecMap::new();
let b = VecMap::new();
b.insert(1, "foo");
a.extend(&b)
```
I can squash the commits after review.
r? @Gankro
Using regular pointer arithmetic to iterate collections of zero-sized types
doesn't work, because we'd get the same pointer all the time. Our
current solution is to convert the pointer to an integer, add an offset
and then convert back, but this inhibits certain optimizations.
What we should do instead is to convert the pointer to one that points
to an i8*, and then use a LLVM GEP instructions without the inbounds
flag to perform the pointer arithmetic. This allows to generate pointers
that point outside allocated objects without causing UB (as long as you
don't dereference them), and it wraps around using two's complement,
i.e. it behaves exactly like the wrapping_* operations we're currently
using, with the added benefit of LLVM being able to better optimize the
resulting IR.
Ideally this trait implementation would be unstable, requiring crates to opt-in
if they would like the functionality, but that's not currently how stability
works so the implementation needs to be removed entirely.
This may come back at a future date, but for now the conservative option is to
remove it.
[breaking-change]
This commit does two things: it adds an example for indexing vectors, and it changes the \"Examples\" section to use full sentences.
This change was spurred by someone in the #rust IRC channel asking if there was a `.set()` method for changing the `i`-th value of a vector (they had missed that `Vec` implements `IndexMut`, which is easy to do if you're not aware of that trait).
