In Rust 1.81, we added a FCW lint (including linting in dependencies)
against pointer casts that add an auto trait to dyn bounds. This was
part of work making casts of pointers involving trait objects stricter
which was needed to restabilize trait upcasting.
We considered just making this a hard error at the time, but opted
against it due to breakage found by crater. This breakage was mostly
due to the `anymap` crate which has been a persistent problem for us.
It's now a year later, and the fact that this is not yet a hard error
is giving us pause about stabilizing arbitrary self types and
`derive(CoercePointee)`. So let's now make a hard error of this.
The rules for casting `*mut X<dyn A>` -> `*mut Y<dyn B>` are as follows:
- If `B` has a principal
- `A` must have exactly the same principal (including generics)
- Auto traits of `B` must be a subset of autotraits in `A`
Note that `X<_>` and `Y<_>` can be identity, or arbitrary structs with last field being the dyn type.
The lifetime of the trait object itself (`dyn ... + 'a`) is not checked.
This prevents a few soundness issues with `#![feature(arbitrary_self_types)]` and trait upcasting.
Namely, these checks make sure that vtable is always valid for the pointee.
