rust/src/doc/book/lang-items.md
Alex Crichton 464cdff102 std: Stabilize APIs for the 1.6 release
This commit is the standard API stabilization commit for the 1.6 release cycle.
The list of issues and APIs below have all been through their cycle-long FCP and
the libs team decisions are listed below

Stabilized APIs

* `Read::read_exact`
* `ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof` (renamed from `UnexpectedEOF`)
* libcore -- this was a bit of a nuanced stabilization, the crate itself is now
  marked as `#[stable]` and the methods appearing via traits for primitives like
  `char` and `str` are now also marked as stable. Note that the extension traits
  themeselves are marked as unstable as they're imported via the prelude. The
  `try!` macro was also moved from the standard library into libcore to have the
  same interface. Otherwise the functions all have copied stability from the
  standard library now.
* The `#![no_std]` attribute
* `fs::DirBuilder`
* `fs::DirBuilder::new`
* `fs::DirBuilder::recursive`
* `fs::DirBuilder::create`
* `os::unix::fs::DirBuilderExt`
* `os::unix::fs::DirBuilderExt::mode`
* `vec::Drain`
* `vec::Vec::drain`
* `string::Drain`
* `string::String::drain`
* `vec_deque::Drain`
* `vec_deque::VecDeque::drain`
* `collections::hash_map::Drain`
* `collections::hash_map::HashMap::drain`
* `collections::hash_set::Drain`
* `collections::hash_set::HashSet::drain`
* `collections::binary_heap::Drain`
* `collections::binary_heap::BinaryHeap::drain`
* `Vec::extend_from_slice` (renamed from `push_all`)
* `Mutex::get_mut`
* `Mutex::into_inner`
* `RwLock::get_mut`
* `RwLock::into_inner`
* `Iterator::min_by_key` (renamed from `min_by`)
* `Iterator::max_by_key` (renamed from `max_by`)

Deprecated APIs

* `ErrorKind::UnexpectedEOF` (renamed to `UnexpectedEof`)
* `OsString::from_bytes`
* `OsStr::to_cstring`
* `OsStr::to_bytes`
* `fs::walk_dir` and `fs::WalkDir`
* `path::Components::peek`
* `slice::bytes::MutableByteVector`
* `slice::bytes::copy_memory`
* `Vec::push_all` (renamed to `extend_from_slice`)
* `Duration::span`
* `IpAddr`
* `SocketAddr::ip`
* `Read::tee`
* `io::Tee`
* `Write::broadcast`
* `io::Broadcast`
* `Iterator::min_by` (renamed to `min_by_key`)
* `Iterator::max_by` (renamed to `max_by_key`)
* `net::lookup_addr`

New APIs (still unstable)

* `<[T]>::sort_by_key` (added to mirror `min_by_key`)

Closes #27585
Closes #27704
Closes #27707
Closes #27710
Closes #27711
Closes #27727
Closes #27740
Closes #27744
Closes #27799
Closes #27801
cc #27801 (doesn't close as `Chars` is still unstable)
Closes #28968
2015-12-05 15:09:44 -08:00

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% Lang items
> **Note**: lang items are often provided by crates in the Rust distribution,
> and lang items themselves have an unstable interface. It is recommended to use
> officially distributed crates instead of defining your own lang items.
The `rustc` compiler has certain pluggable operations, that is,
functionality that isn't hard-coded into the language, but is
implemented in libraries, with a special marker to tell the compiler
it exists. The marker is the attribute `#[lang = "..."]` and there are
various different values of `...`, i.e. various different 'lang
items'.
For example, `Box` pointers require two lang items, one for allocation
and one for deallocation. A freestanding program that uses the `Box`
sugar for dynamic allocations via `malloc` and `free`:
```rust
#![feature(lang_items, box_syntax, start, libc)]
#![no_std]
extern crate libc;
extern {
fn abort() -> !;
}
#[lang = "owned_box"]
pub struct Box<T>(*mut T);
#[lang = "exchange_malloc"]
unsafe fn allocate(size: usize, _align: usize) -> *mut u8 {
let p = libc::malloc(size as libc::size_t) as *mut u8;
// malloc failed
if p as usize == 0 {
abort();
}
p
}
#[lang = "exchange_free"]
unsafe fn deallocate(ptr: *mut u8, _size: usize, _align: usize) {
libc::free(ptr as *mut libc::c_void)
}
#[start]
fn main(argc: isize, argv: *const *const u8) -> isize {
let x = box 1;
0
}
#[lang = "eh_personality"] extern fn eh_personality() {}
#[lang = "panic_fmt"] fn panic_fmt() -> ! { loop {} }
# #[lang = "eh_unwind_resume"] extern fn rust_eh_unwind_resume() {}
# #[no_mangle] pub extern fn rust_eh_register_frames () {}
# #[no_mangle] pub extern fn rust_eh_unregister_frames () {}
```
Note the use of `abort`: the `exchange_malloc` lang item is assumed to
return a valid pointer, and so needs to do the check internally.
Other features provided by lang items include:
- overloadable operators via traits: the traits corresponding to the
`==`, `<`, dereferencing (`*`) and `+` (etc.) operators are all
marked with lang items; those specific four are `eq`, `ord`,
`deref`, and `add` respectively.
- stack unwinding and general failure; the `eh_personality`, `fail`
and `fail_bounds_checks` lang items.
- the traits in `std::marker` used to indicate types of
various kinds; lang items `send`, `sync` and `copy`.
- the marker types and variance indicators found in
`std::marker`; lang items `covariant_type`,
`contravariant_lifetime`, etc.
Lang items are loaded lazily by the compiler; e.g. if one never uses
`Box` then there is no need to define functions for `exchange_malloc`
and `exchange_free`. `rustc` will emit an error when an item is needed
but not found in the current crate or any that it depends on.