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| author | derekdreery <rodododouk@hotmail.com> | 2017-01-06 15:58:35 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-01-06 15:58:35 +0000 |
| commit | 5cb37f6331cb97a0d644d3ff753e73dd7bf66604 (patch) | |
| tree | b6beb363a65b1b1abd6ab92ad94b34179c170257 | |
| parent | 0728b710347aa80dfc05de29bfed4ed5fc023818 (diff) | |
| download | rust-5cb37f6331cb97a0d644d3ff753e73dd7bf66604.tar.gz rust-5cb37f6331cb97a0d644d3ff753e73dd7bf66604.zip | |
Update vec.rs
Add a warning not to convert char* from c to Vec<u8> (I thought you could until I asked on irc)
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libcollections/vec.rs | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libcollections/vec.rs b/src/libcollections/vec.rs index f2ef54f6e56..3c9a9897fea 100644 --- a/src/libcollections/vec.rs +++ b/src/libcollections/vec.rs @@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ impl<T> Vec<T> { /// * `capacity` needs to be the capacity that the pointer was allocated with. /// /// Violating these may cause problems like corrupting the allocator's - /// internal datastructures. + /// internal datastructures. For example it is **not** safe + /// to build a `Vec<u8>` from a C pointer to a char array and a `size_t`. /// /// The ownership of `ptr` is effectively transferred to the /// `Vec<T>` which may then deallocate, reallocate or change the |
