fn main() { // The slack between allocations is random. // Loop a few times to hit the zero-slack case. for _ in 0..1024 { let n = 0u64; let ptr: *const u64 = &n; // Allocate a new stack variable whose lifetime quickly ends. // If there's a chance that &m == ptr.add(1), then an int-to-ptr cast of // that value will have ambiguous provenance between n and m. // See https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues/1866#issuecomment-985770125 { let m = 0u64; let _ = &m as *const u64; } let iptr = ptr as usize; let zst = (iptr + 8) as *const (); // This is a ZST ptr just at the end of `n`, so it should be valid to deref. unsafe { *zst } } }