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raw-rs
Utilities for doing unsafe work with the raw representations of data in Rust
lib.rs
:
Utilities for working with the raw representations of core Rust data types.
This library provides convenience methods and types for doing unsafe
work in a more
ergonomic way. It provides extension traits for the raw pointer types *const T
and *mut T
,
as well as the raw slice types *const [T]
and *mut [T]
. It also provides a wrapper for
slices that has all of its operations unchecked. Functionality is separated into modules so
that they can opted into individually using a glob import.
For the most part, the methods provided are conveniences for those found in the std::ptr
API,
which can be a bit awkward. Method names reflect a proposed set of names for std::ptr
stabilization, and not the actual names. Should std::ptr
be stabilized, these may be renamed.
Note also that an ideal implementation of this library provides many of the offered methods as unsafe operators. Unfortunately, this is not currently possible in Rust as of this writing. We instead settle for named methods that mirror these operators.