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brson opened this issue Sep 12, 2013 · 2 comments · Fixed by #9258
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Document what unsafety means in rust #9144

brson opened this issue Sep 12, 2013 · 2 comments · Fixed by #9258

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brson commented Sep 12, 2013

This is always under debate. Here are some things that are currently considered unsafe:

  • Anything that can cause segfaults, invalid reads (memory unsafety)
  • Anything that can create invalid utf8 strings
  • Anything that can invoke undefined behavior (ptr::offset)
  • Data races
  • Deadlocks (in extra::arc)

Things that are not typically considered unsafe:

  • Deadlocks
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We can hash this out in a wiki page before turning it into official documentation:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Unsafety-draft

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Nominating for milestone 1: Well defined.

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auto merge of #9258 : thestinger/rust/doc, r=catamorphism
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Closes #9144
flip1995 pushed a commit to flip1995/rust that referenced this issue Jul 18, 2022
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Auto merge of rust-lang#9144 - alex-semenyuk:or_fun_call_span_fix, r=…
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Fix span for or_fun_call

Closes rust-lang#9033
changelog: [`or_fun_call`]: span points to the `unwrap_or` only instead of through the entire method chain expression
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