src/libcore/raw.rs

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#![allow(missing_docs)]
#![unstable]

//! Contains struct definitions for the layout of compiler built-in types.
//!
//! They can be used as targets of transmutes in unsafe code for manipulating
//! the raw representations directly.
//!
//! Their definition should always match the ABI defined in `rustc::back::abi`.

use marker::Copy;
use mem;

/// The representation of a Rust slice
#[repr(C)]
pub struct Slice<T> {
    pub data: *const T,
    pub len: uint,
}

impl<T> Copy for Slice<T> {}

/// The representation of a Rust closure
#[repr(C)]
#[derive(Copy)]
pub struct Closure {
    pub code: *mut (),
    pub env: *mut (),
}

/// The representation of a Rust trait object.
///
/// This struct does not have a `Repr` implementation
/// because there is no way to refer to all trait objects generically.
#[repr(C)]
#[derive(Copy)]
pub struct TraitObject {
    pub data: *mut (),
    pub vtable: *mut (),
}

/// This trait is meant to map equivalences between raw structs and their
/// corresponding rust values.
pub trait Repr<T> {
    /// This function "unwraps" a rust value (without consuming it) into its raw
    /// struct representation. This can be used to read/write different values
    /// for the struct. This is a safe method because by default it does not
    /// enable write-access to the fields of the return value in safe code.
    #[inline]
    fn repr(&self) -> T { unsafe { mem::transmute_copy(&self) } }
}

impl<T> Repr<Slice<T>> for [T] {}
impl Repr<Slice<u8>> for str {}