Auto merge of #35627 - apasel422:coerce-cell, r=alexcrichton

Implement `CoerceUnsized` for `{Cell, RefCell, UnsafeCell}`

These impls are analogous to the one for `NonZero`. It's occasionally useful to be able to coerce the cell types when they're being used inside another abstraction. See Manishearth/rust-gc#17 for an example.

r? @eddyb

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libcore/cell.rs b/src/libcore/cell.rs
index a388012e1da..2af48ef2fab 100644
--- a/src/libcore/cell.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/cell.rs
@@ -355,6 +355,9 @@ impl<T: Copy> From<T> for Cell<T> {
     }
 }
 
+#[unstable(feature = "coerce_unsized", issue = "27732")]
+impl<T: CoerceUnsized<U>, U> CoerceUnsized<Cell<U>> for Cell<T> {}
+
 /// A mutable memory location with dynamically checked borrow rules
 ///
 /// See the [module-level documentation](index.html) for more.
@@ -793,6 +796,9 @@ impl<T> From<T> for RefCell<T> {
     }
 }
 
+#[unstable(feature = "coerce_unsized", issue = "27732")]
+impl<T: CoerceUnsized<U>, U> CoerceUnsized<RefCell<U>> for RefCell<T> {}
+
 struct BorrowRef<'b> {
     borrow: &'b Cell<BorrowFlag>,
 }
@@ -1122,3 +1128,13 @@ impl<T> From<T> for UnsafeCell<T> {
         UnsafeCell::new(t)
     }
 }
+
+#[unstable(feature = "coerce_unsized", issue = "27732")]
+impl<T: CoerceUnsized<U>, U> CoerceUnsized<UnsafeCell<U>> for UnsafeCell<T> {}
+
+#[allow(unused)]
+fn assert_coerce_unsized(a: UnsafeCell<&i32>, b: Cell<&i32>, c: RefCell<&i32>) {
+    let _: UnsafeCell<&Send> = a;
+    let _: Cell<&Send> = b;
+    let _: RefCell<&Send> = c;
+}