Rollup merge of #97373 - dimpolo:cell_dispatch_from_dyn, r=dtolnay

impl DispatchFromDyn for Cell and UnsafeCell

After some fruitful discussion on [Internals](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/impl-dispatchfromdyn-for-cell-2/16520) here's my first PR to rust-lang/rust 🎉

Please let me know if there's something I missed.

This adds `DispatchFromDyn` impls for `Cell`, `UnsafeCell` and `SyncUnsafeCell`.
An existing test is also expanded to test the `Cell` impl (which requires the `UnsafeCell` impl)

The different `RefCell` types can not implement `DispatchFromDyn` since they have more than one (non ZST) field.

 

**Edit:**
### What:
These changes allow one to make types like `MyRc`(code below), to be object safe method receivers after implementing `DispatchFromDyn` and `Deref` for them.

This allows for code like this:
```rust
struct MyRc<T: ?Sized>(Cell<NonNull<RcBox<T>>>);

/* impls for DispatchFromDyn, CoerceUnsized and Deref for MyRc*/

trait Trait {
    fn foo(self: MyRc<Self>);
}

let impls_trait = ...;
let rc = MyRc::new(impls_trait) as MyRc<dyn Trait>;
rc.foo();
```

Note: `Cell` and `UnsafeCell` won't directly become valid method receivers since they don't implement `Deref`. Making use of these changes requires a wrapper type and nightly features.

### Why:
A custom pointer type with interior mutability allows one to store extra information in the pointer itself.
These changes allow for such a type to be a method receiver.

### Examples:
My use case is a cycle aware custom `Rc` implementation that when dropping a cycle marks some references dangling.

On the [forum](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/impl-dispatchfromdyn-for-cell/14762/8) andersk mentioned that they track if a `Gc` reference is rooted with an extra bit in the reference itself.

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/library/core/src/cell.rs b/library/core/src/cell.rs
index 129213fde74..7f109491350 100644
--- a/library/core/src/cell.rs
+++ b/library/core/src/cell.rs
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ use crate::cmp::Ordering;
 use crate::fmt::{self, Debug, Display};
 use crate::marker::{PhantomData, Unsize};
 use crate::mem;
-use crate::ops::{CoerceUnsized, Deref, DerefMut};
+use crate::ops::{CoerceUnsized, Deref, DerefMut, DispatchFromDyn};
 use crate::ptr::{self, NonNull};
 
 mod lazy;
@@ -571,6 +571,16 @@ impl<T: Default> Cell<T> {
 #[unstable(feature = "coerce_unsized", issue = "18598")]
 impl<T: CoerceUnsized<U>, U> CoerceUnsized<Cell<U>> for Cell<T> {}
 
+// Allow types that wrap `Cell` to also implement `DispatchFromDyn`
+// and become object safe method receivers.
+// Note that currently `Cell` itself cannot be a method receiver
+// because it does not implement Deref.
+// In other words:
+// `self: Cell<&Self>` won't work
+// `self: CellWrapper<Self>` becomes possible
+#[unstable(feature = "dispatch_from_dyn", issue = "none")]
+impl<T: DispatchFromDyn<U>, U> DispatchFromDyn<Cell<U>> for Cell<T> {}
+
 impl<T> Cell<[T]> {
     /// Returns a `&[Cell<T>]` from a `&Cell<[T]>`
     ///
@@ -2078,6 +2088,16 @@ impl<T> const From<T> for UnsafeCell<T> {
 #[unstable(feature = "coerce_unsized", issue = "18598")]
 impl<T: CoerceUnsized<U>, U> CoerceUnsized<UnsafeCell<U>> for UnsafeCell<T> {}
 
+// Allow types that wrap `UnsafeCell` to also implement `DispatchFromDyn`
+// and become object safe method receivers.
+// Note that currently `UnsafeCell` itself cannot be a method receiver
+// because it does not implement Deref.
+// In other words:
+// `self: UnsafeCell<&Self>` won't work
+// `self: UnsafeCellWrapper<Self>` becomes possible
+#[unstable(feature = "dispatch_from_dyn", issue = "none")]
+impl<T: DispatchFromDyn<U>, U> DispatchFromDyn<UnsafeCell<U>> for UnsafeCell<T> {}
+
 /// [`UnsafeCell`], but [`Sync`].
 ///
 /// This is just an `UnsafeCell`, except it implements `Sync`
@@ -2169,6 +2189,17 @@ impl<T> const From<T> for SyncUnsafeCell<T> {
 //#[unstable(feature = "sync_unsafe_cell", issue = "95439")]
 impl<T: CoerceUnsized<U>, U> CoerceUnsized<SyncUnsafeCell<U>> for SyncUnsafeCell<T> {}
 
+// Allow types that wrap `SyncUnsafeCell` to also implement `DispatchFromDyn`
+// and become object safe method receivers.
+// Note that currently `SyncUnsafeCell` itself cannot be a method receiver
+// because it does not implement Deref.
+// In other words:
+// `self: SyncUnsafeCell<&Self>` won't work
+// `self: SyncUnsafeCellWrapper<Self>` becomes possible
+#[unstable(feature = "dispatch_from_dyn", issue = "none")]
+//#[unstable(feature = "sync_unsafe_cell", issue = "95439")]
+impl<T: DispatchFromDyn<U>, U> DispatchFromDyn<SyncUnsafeCell<U>> for SyncUnsafeCell<T> {}
+
 #[allow(unused)]
 fn assert_coerce_unsized(
     a: UnsafeCell<&i32>,