// We *can* have aliasing &RefCell and &mut T, but we cannot read through the former. // Else we couldn't optimize based on the assumption that `xref` below is truly unique. use std::cell::RefCell; use std::{mem, ptr}; fn main() { let rc = RefCell::new(0); let mut refmut = rc.borrow_mut(); let xref: &mut i32 = &mut *refmut; let xshr = &rc; // creating this is okay let _val = *xref; // we can even still use our mutable reference mem::forget(unsafe { ptr::read(xshr) }); // but after reading through the shared ref let _val = *xref; // the mutable one is dead and gone //~^ ERROR does not exist on the stack }