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authorManish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com>2015-11-22 10:26:50 +0530
committerManish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com>2015-11-22 10:26:50 +0530
commitbef93557e5f230e2d99d1fa5f0f8b9354c85ac7c (patch)
treef7596319480e9bdb97b5062e4f438f1d829b836a
parent352853c18bf1ec00c69725ee97ae1e3c0bb176fe (diff)
Improve transmute diagnostics with a note about destructors
fixes #29922
-rw-r--r--src/librustc/diagnostics.rs3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/librustc/diagnostics.rs b/src/librustc/diagnostics.rs
index 7cb2de78e2c..361b8c53108 100644
--- a/src/librustc/diagnostics.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/diagnostics.rs
@@ -858,6 +858,9 @@ It is also possible to manually transmute:
 ```
 ptr::read(&v as *const _ as *const SomeType) // `v` transmuted to `SomeType`
 ```
+
+Note that this does not move `v` (unlike `transmute`), and may need a
+call to `mem::forget(v)` in case you want to avoid destructors being called.
 "##,
 
 E0152: r##"