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This adds strictly more information to the source files and reduces the need for customized tooling to render the book. (While this should not change the output of _rustbook_, it is very useful when rendering the sources with external tools like Pandoc.)
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% Intrinsics
Note
: intrinsics will forever have an unstable interface, it is recommended to use the stable interfaces of libcore rather than intrinsics directly.
These are imported as if they were FFI functions, with the special
rust-intrinsic ABI. For example, if one was in a freestanding
context, but wished to be able to transmute between types, and
perform efficient pointer arithmetic, one would import those functions
via a declaration like
# #![feature(intrinsics)]
# fn main() {}
extern "rust-intrinsic" {
fn transmute<T, U>(x: T) -> U;
fn offset<T>(dst: *const T, offset: isize) -> *const T;
}
As with any other FFI functions, these are always unsafe to call.