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The book was located under 'src/doc/trpl' because originally, it was going to be hosted under that URL. Late in the game, before 1.0, we decided that /book was a better one, so we changed the output, but not the input. This causes confusion for no good reason. So we'll change the source directory to look like the output directory, like for every other thing in src/doc.
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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.