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project-safe-transmute

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Summary

Figuring out how we can make safe ways to transmute.

Links

Repository rust-lang/project-safe-transmute
Zulip stream #project-safe-transmute

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:25 (20 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

jswrenncommented, Dec 25, 2021

Update 2021-12-24:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/92268 provides an initial, incomplete implementation of MCP 411: Lang Item for Transmutability!

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nikomatsakiscommented, Aug 31, 2020

2020-08-31:

There has been a lot of iteration and there is now a draft RFC that is ready for lang-team review. There is a “TL;DR” summary that explains the intentions and plan. The full RFC is extremely detailed and almost tutorial-esque. Now at the point where it’s time to read through it and decide whether to go forward.

Lang team recommends opening the RFC on the rfcs repo.

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Jokes aside, there is actually a work on going for making a subset of transmutes safe: https://github.com/rust-lang/project-safe-transmute.

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