Auto merge of #79596 - m-ou-se:rollup-hujx3c7, r=m-ou-se

Rollup of 11 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - #79038 (Change ui test that are run-pass and that do not test the compiler to library tests)
 - #79184 (Stop adding '*' at the end of slice and str typenames for MSVC case)
 - #79227 (Remove const_fn_feature_flags test)
 - #79444 (Move const ip in ui test to unit test)
 - #79522 (Validate lint docs separately.)
 - #79525 (Add -Z normalize-docs and enable it for compiler docs)
 - #79527 (Move intra-doc link tests into a subdirectory)
 - #79548 (Show since when a function is const in stdlib)
 - #79568 (update Miri)
 - #79573 (Update with status for various NetBSD ports.)
 - #79583 (Update books)

Failed merges:

r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs
index 896af8a9191..d1bbf74307c 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/debuginfo/type_names.rs
@@ -94,7 +94,14 @@ pub fn push_debuginfo_type_name<'tcx>(
             push_debuginfo_type_name(tcx, inner_type, true, output, visited);
 
             if cpp_like_names {
-                output.push('*');
+                // Slices and `&str` are treated like C++ pointers when computing debug
+                // info for MSVC debugger. However, adding '*' at the end of these types' names
+                // causes the .natvis engine for WinDbg to fail to display their data, so we opt these
+                // types out to aid debugging in MSVC.
+                match *inner_type.kind() {
+                    ty::Slice(_) | ty::Str => {}
+                    _ => output.push('*'),
+                }
             }
         }
         ty::Array(inner_type, len) => {