More `IS_ZST` in `library`
I noticed that `post_inc_start` and `pre_dec_end` were doing this check in different ways
d19b64fb54/library/core/src/slice/iter/macros.rs (L76-L93)
so started making this PR, then added a few more I found since I was already making changes anyway.
I noticed that `post_inc_start` and `pre_dec_end` were doing this check in different ways
d19b64fb54/library/core/src/slice/iter/macros.rs (L76-L93)
so started making this PR, then added a few more I found since I was already making changes anyway.
vec::Splice can invalidate the slice::Iter inside vec::Drain.
So we replace them with dangling pointers which, unlike ones to
deallocated memory, are allowed.
There's a bunch of these checks because of special handing for ZSTs in various unsafe implementations of stuff.
This lets them be `T::IS_ZST` instead of `mem::size_of::<T>() == 0` every time, making them both more readable and more terse.
*Not* proposed for stabilization at this time. Would be `pub(crate)` except `alloc` wants to use it too.
(And while it doesn't matter now, if we ever get something like 85836 making it a const can help codegen be simpler.)
Like we have `add`/`sub` which are the `usize` version of `offset`, this adds the `usize` equivalent of `offset_from`. Like how `.add(d)` replaced a whole bunch of `.offset(d as isize)`, you can see from the changes here that it's fairly common that code actually knows the order between the pointers and *wants* a `usize`, not an `isize`.
As a bonus, this can do `sub nuw`+`udiv exact`, rather than `sub`+`sdiv exact`, which can be optimized slightly better because it doesn't have to worry about negatives. That's why the slice iterators weren't using `offset_from`, though I haven't updated that code in this PR because slices are so perf-critical that I'll do it as its own change.
This is an intrinsic, like `offset_from`, so that it can eventually be allowed in CTFE. It also allows checking the extra safety condition -- see the test confirming that CTFE catches it if you pass the pointers in the wrong order.
