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authorbors <bors@rust-lang.org>2016-09-28 15:03:26 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-09-28 15:03:26 -0700
commit86affcdf6c622278a89b73bb7f1b8ac00e970888 (patch)
treef8f361e0f1dd7ed5980297531f829b13fd0314bc /src/libcore
parentf17b1e03dfb5df1754a7c68bda439ed9c0b51de4 (diff)
parentac82eaaafef1a85c266acfcf659fe62405f1c99f (diff)
Auto merge of #36805 - jonathandturner:rollup, r=jonathandturner
Rollup of 11 pull requests

- Successful merges: #36376, #36672, #36740, #36757, #36765, #36769, #36782, #36783, #36784, #36795, #36796
- Failed merges:
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-rw-r--r--src/libcore/intrinsics.rs13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libcore/intrinsics.rs b/src/libcore/intrinsics.rs
index 22abe7a99b1..6c4da2a8851 100644
--- a/src/libcore/intrinsics.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/intrinsics.rs
@@ -596,6 +596,19 @@ extern "rust-intrinsic" {
 
     /// Invokes memset on the specified pointer, setting `count * size_of::<T>()`
     /// bytes of memory starting at `dst` to `val`.
+    ///
+    /// # Examples
+    ///
+    /// ```
+    /// use std::ptr;
+    ///
+    /// let mut vec = vec![0; 4];
+    /// unsafe {
+    ///     let vec_ptr = vec.as_mut_ptr();
+    ///     ptr::write_bytes(vec_ptr, b'a', 2);
+    /// }
+    /// assert_eq!(vec, [b'a', b'a', 0, 0]);
+    /// ```
     #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
     pub fn write_bytes<T>(dst: *mut T, val: u8, count: usize);