Add core::hint::must_use
The example code in this documentation is minimized from a real-world situation in the `anyhow` crate where this function would have been valuable.
Having this provided by the standard library is especially useful for proc macros, even more than for macro_rules. That's because proc macro crates aren't allowed to export anything other than macros, so they couldn't make their own `must_use` function for their macro-generated code to call.
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> An identity function that causes an `unused_must_use` warning to be triggered if the given value is not used (returned, stored in a variable, etc) by the caller.
>
> This is primarily intended for use in macro-generated code, in which a [`#[must_use]` attribute][must_use] either on a type or a function would not be convenient.
>
> [must_use]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/attributes/diagnostics.html#the-must_use-attribute
>
> ### Example
>
> ```rust
> #![feature(hint_must_use)]
>
> use core::fmt;
>
> pub struct Error(/* ... */);
>
> #[macro_export]
> macro_rules! make_error {
> ($($args:expr),*) => {
> core::hint::must_use({
> let error = $crate::make_error(core::format_args!($($args),*));
> error
> })
> };
> }
>
> // Implementation detail of make_error! macro.
> #[doc(hidden)]
> pub fn make_error(args: fmt::Arguments<'_>) -> Error {
> Error(/* ... */)
> }
>
> fn demo() -> Option<Error> {
> if true {
> // Oops, meant to write `return Some(make_error!("..."));`
> Some(make_error!("..."));
> }
> None
> }
> ```
>
> In the above example, we'd like an `unused_must_use` lint to apply to the value created by `make_error!`. However, neither `#[must_use]` on a struct nor `#[must_use]` on a function is appropriate here, so the macro expands using `core::hint::must_use` instead.
>
> - We wouldn't want `#[must_use]` on the `struct Error` because that would make the following unproblematic code trigger a warning:
>
> ```rust
> fn f(arg: &str) -> Result<(), Error>
>
> #[test]
> fn t() {
> // Assert that `f` returns error if passed an empty string.
> // A value of type `Error` is unused here but that's not a problem.
> f("").unwrap_err();
> }
> ```
>
> - Using `#[must_use]` on `fn make_error` can't help because the return value *is* used, as the right-hand side of a `let` statement. The `let` statement looks useless but is in fact necessary for ensuring that temporaries within the `format_args` expansion are not kept alive past the creation of the `Error`, as keeping them alive past that point can cause autotrait issues in async code:
>
> ```rust
> async fn f() {
> // Using `let` inside the make_error expansion causes temporaries like
> // `unsync()` to drop at the semicolon of that `let` statement, which
> // is prior to the await point. They would otherwise stay around until
> // the semicolon on *this* statement, which is after the await point,
> // and the enclosing Future would not implement Send.
> log(make_error!("look: {:p}", unsync())).await;
> }
>
> async fn log(error: Error) {/* ... */}
>
> // Returns something without a Sync impl.
> fn unsync() -> *const () {
> 0 as *const ()
> }
> ```
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