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authorOli Scherer <github35764891676564198441@oli-obk.de>2021-03-16 18:31:25 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-03-16 18:31:25 +0100
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Update compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/consts/valtree.rs
Co-authored-by: Ralf Jung <post@ralfj.de>
-rw-r--r--compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/consts/valtree.rs3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/consts/valtree.rs b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/consts/valtree.rs
index 97e7dd6507b..46be9cec7ab 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/consts/valtree.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/consts/valtree.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ use rustc_macros::HashStable;
 /// This datastructure is used to represent the value of constants used in the type system.
 ///
 /// We explicitly choose a different datastructure from the way values are processed within
-/// CTFE, as in the type system equal values must also have equal representation.
+/// CTFE, as in the type system equal values (according to their `PartialEq`) must also have
+/// equal representation (`==` on the rustc data structure, e.g. `ValTree`) and vice versa.
 /// Since CTFE uses `AllocId` to represent pointers, it often happens that two different
 /// `AllocId`s point to equal values. So we may end up with different representations for
 /// two constants whose value is `&42`. Furthermore any kind of struct that has padding will