Note: "different to" is not exactly incorrect, but "different from" is more
commonly accepted in both US and Commonwealth English, and also more
consistent with other usage within this tutorial.
A vector can reuse its allocation (and the allocations/resources of any
contained values) when cloning into an already-instantiated vector, so
we might as well do so.
The recent pull request to remove libc from libstd has hit a wall in compiling
on windows, and I've been trying to investigate on the try bots as to why (it
compiles locally just fine). To the best of my knowledge, the LLVM section
iterator is behaving badly when iterating over the sections of the libc DLL.
Upon investigating the LLVMGetSectionName function in LLVM, I discovered that
this function doesn't always return a null-terminated string. It returns the
data pointer of a StringRef instance (LLVM's equivalent of &str essentially),
but it has no method of returning the length of the name of the section.
This commit modifies the section iteration when loading libraries to invoke a
custom LLVMRustGetSectionName which will correctly return both the length and
the data pointer.
I have not yet verified that this will fix landing liblibc, as it will require a
snapshot before doing a full test. Regardless, this is a worrisome situation
regarding the LLVM API, and should likely be fixed anyway.
Fix#13266.
There is a little bit of acrobatics in the definition of `crate_paths`
to avoid calling `clone()` on the dylib/rlib unless we actually are
going to need them.
The other oddity is that I have replaced the `root_ident: Option<&str>`
parameter with a `root: &Option<CratePaths>`, which may surprise one
who was expecting to see something like: `root: Option<&CratePaths>`.
I went with the approach here because I could not come up with code for
the alternative that was acceptable to the borrow checker.
Update the instructions to reflect that we have binary installers for all
supported platforms, and move the building from source directions into a
dedicated "Building from Source" directory.
This commit tightens up the restriction on types used to index slices to require
exactly `uint` indices. Previously any integral type was accepted, but this
leads to a few subtle problems:
* 64-bit indices don't make much sense on 32-bit systems
* Signed indices for slices used as negative indexing isn't implemented
This was discussed at the recent work week, and also has some discussion on
issue #10453.
Closes#10453
