Cover reference equality in primitive.reference API docs #54197
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Clarification of the use of `ptr::eq` to test equality of references via address by pointer coercion
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…ss-eq, r=QuietMisdreavus Documents reference equality by address (rust-lang#54197) Clarification of the use of `ptr::eq` to test equality of references via address by pointer coercion, regarding issue rust-lang#54197 . The same example as in `ptr::eq` docs is shown here to clarify that `PartialEq` compares values pointed-to instead of via address (which can be desired in some cases)
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…ss-eq, r=QuietMisdreavus Documents reference equality by address (rust-lang#54197) Clarification of the use of `ptr::eq` to test equality of references via address by pointer coercion, regarding issue rust-lang#54197 . The same example as in `ptr::eq` docs is shown here to clarify that `PartialEq` compares values pointed-to instead of via address (which can be desired in some cases)
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…ss-eq, r=QuietMisdreavus Documents reference equality by address (rust-lang#54197) Clarification of the use of `ptr::eq` to test equality of references via address by pointer coercion, regarding issue rust-lang#54197 . The same example as in `ptr::eq` docs is shown here to clarify that `PartialEq` compares values pointed-to instead of via address (which can be desired in some cases)
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…ss-eq, r=QuietMisdreavus Documents reference equality by address (rust-lang#54197) Clarification of the use of `ptr::eq` to test equality of references via address by pointer coercion, regarding issue rust-lang#54197 . The same example as in `ptr::eq` docs is shown here to clarify that `PartialEq` compares values pointed-to instead of via address (which can be desired in some cases)
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Rollup of 16 pull requests Successful merges: - #54755 (Documents reference equality by address (#54197)) - #54811 (During rustc bootstrap, make default for `optimize` independent of `debug`) - #54825 (NLL says "borrowed content" instead of more precise "dereference of raw pointer") - #54860 (Add doc comments about safest way to initialize a vector of zeros) - #54869 (Fix mobile docs) - #54891 (Fix tracking issue for Once::is_completed) - #54913 (doc fix: it's auto traits that make for automatic implementations) - #54920 (Fix handling of #[must_use] on unit and uninhabited types) - #54932 (A handful of random string-related improvements) - #54936 (impl Eq+Hash for TyLayout) - #54950 (std: Synchronize global allocator on wasm32) - #54956 ("(using ..." doesn't have the matching ")") - #54958 (add a macro for static (compile-time) assertions) - #54967 (Remove incorrect span for second label inner macro invocation) - #54983 (Fix slice's benchmarks) - #54989 (Fix spelling in the documentation to htmldocck.py) Failed merges: r? @ghost
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This page: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.reference.html
It's not obvious that reference equality is accomplished via implicit reference-pointer coercion plus
ptr::eq. Theptr::eqdocs mention this, but I would not look there to find reference equality.The reference primitive page is someplace I would look for info about reference equality. Update this page to discuss reference equality, and link to
ptr::eq.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: