This change has two consequences:
1. It makes `Arc<T>` and `Rc<T>` covariant in `T`.
2. It causes the compiler to reject code that was unsound with respect
to dropck. See compile-fail/issue-29106.rs for an example of code that
no longer compiles. Because of this, this is a [breaking-change].
Fixes#29037.
Fixes#29106.
The text says it's a vector of floats, but the code actually uses a vector of integers. The type of the Vec doesn't really matter, so I just cut it from the text.
These common traits were left off originally by accident from these smart
pointers, and a past attempt (#26008) to add them was later reverted (#26160)
due to unexpected breakge (#26096) occurring. The specific breakage in worry is
the meaning of this return value changed:
let a: Box<Option<T>> = ...;
a.as_ref()
Currently this returns `Option<&T>` but after this change it will return
`&Option<T>` because the `AsRef::as_ref` method shares the same name as
`Option::as_ref`. A [crater report][crater] of this change, however, has shown
that the fallout of this change is quite minimal. These trait implementations
are "the right impls to add" to these smart pointers and would enable various
generalizations such as those in #27197.
[crater]: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0ba4c3512b07641c0f99
This commit is a breaking change for the above reasons mentioned, and the
mitigation strategies look like any of:
Option::as_ref(&a)
a.as_ref().as_ref()
(*a).as_ref()
These commits move libcore into a state so that it's ready for stabilization, performing some minor cleanup:
* The primitive modules for integers in the standard library were all removed from the source tree as they were just straight reexports of the libcore variants.
* The `core::atomic` module now lives in `core::sync::atomic`. The `core::sync` module is otherwise empty, but ripe for expansion!
* The `core::prelude::v1` module was stabilized after auditing that it is a subset of the standard library's prelude plus some primitive extension traits (char, str, and slice)
* Some unstable-hacks for float parsing errors were shifted around to not use the same unstable hacks (e.g. the `flt2dec` module is now used for "privacy").
After this commit, the remaining large unstable functionality specific to libcore is:
* `raw`, `intrinsics`, `nonzero`, `array`, `panicking`, `simd` -- these modules are all unstable or not reexported in the standard library, so they're just remaining in the same status quo as before
* `num::Float` - this extension trait for floats needs to be audited for functionality (much of that is happening in #27823) and may also want to be renamed to `FloatExt` or `F32Ext`/`F64Ext`.
* Should the extension traits for primitives be stabilized in libcore?
I believe other unstable pieces are not isolated to just libcore but also affect the standard library.
cc #27701
* Add previously omitted function `Arc::try_unwrap(Self) -> Result<T, Self>`
* Move `arc.downgrade()` to `Arc::downgrade(&Self)` per conventions.
* Deprecate `Arc::weak_count` and `Arc::strong_count` for raciness. It is almost
impossible to correctly act on these results without a CAS loop on the actual
fields.
* Rename `Arc::make_unique` to `Arc::make_mut` to avoid uniqueness terminology
and to clarify relation to `Arc::get_mut`.
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
This commit resolves the race condition in the `get_mut` and
`make_unique` functions, which arose through interaction with weak
pointers. The basic strategy is to "lock" the weak pointer count when
trying to establish uniqueness, by reusing the field as a simple
spinlock. The overhead for normal use of `Arc` is expected to be minimal
-- it will be *none* when only strong pointers are used, and only
requires a move from atomic increment to CAS for usage of weak pointers.
The commit also removes the `unsafe` and deprecated status of these functions.
Closes#24880
r? @alexcrichton
cc @metajack @SimonSapin @Ms2ger
This commit resolves the race condition in the `get_mut` and
`make_unique` functions, which arose through interaction with weak
pointers. The basic strategy is to "lock" the weak pointer count when
trying to establish uniqueness, by reusing the field as a simple
spinlock. The overhead for normal use of `Arc` is expected to be minimal
-- it will be *none* when only strong pointers are used, and only
requires a move from atomic increment to CAS for usage of weak pointers.
The commit also removes the `unsafe` and deprecated status of these
functions.
Along the way, the commit also improves several memory orderings, and
adds commentary about why various orderings suffice.
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 commit moves the free functions in the `rc`, `arc`, and `boxed` modules to
associated functions on their respective types, following the recent trend
towards this pattern. The previous free functions are all left in-place with
`#[deprecated]` pointers towards the new locations.
This commit also deprecates `arc::get_mut` and `Arc::make_unique` with no
replacement as they are racy in the face of weak pointers.
This is a temporary mitigation for issue #24880 which points out that
these functions are racy in a particular situation where weak pointers
exist.
To mitigate this, mark the functions unsafe until this can be fixed or
another decision is made.
This is a breaking change to unstable API, because the new version
requires an `unsafe` block. Review carefully if weak pointers may race
for any uses of this API and consider abandoning it.
[breaking-change]
An automated script was run against the `.rs` and `.md` files,
subsituting every occurrence of `task` with `thread`. In the `.rs`
files, only the texts in the comment blocks were affected.
This is an implementation of [RFC 1030][rfc] which adds these traits to the
prelude and additionally removes all inherent `into_iter` methods on collections
in favor of the trait implementation (which is now accessible by default).
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1030
This is technically a breaking change due to the prelude additions and removal
of inherent methods, but it is expected that essentially no code breaks in
practice.
[breaking-change]
Closes#24538
This is an implementation of [RFC 1030][rfc] which adds these traits to the
prelude and additionally removes all inherent `into_iter` methods on collections
in favor of the trait implementation (which is now accessible by default).
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1030
This is technically a breaking change due to the prelude additions and removal
of inherent methods, but it is expected that essentially no code breaks in
practice.
[breaking-change]
Closes#24538
