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authorPatrick Walton <pcwalton@mimiga.net>2014-07-07 16:35:15 -0700
committerPatrick Walton <pcwalton@mimiga.net>2014-07-17 14:05:36 -0700
commitde70d76373e05fcf0f421cedb185b08de10a714c (patch)
treeccfdaa415ce2bb947f40746a3b06a8980ab6cd16 /src/libsyntax/print
parentca24abd4d2d02dd96ef323074c9a21d44b3fd202 (diff)
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librustc: Remove cross-borrowing of `Box<T>` to `&T` from the language,
except where trait objects are involved.

Part of issue #15349, though I'm leaving it open for trait objects.
Cross borrowing for trait objects remains because it is needed until we
have DST.

This will break code like:

    fn foo(x: &int) { ... }

    let a = box 3i;
    foo(a);

Change this code to:

    fn foo(x: &int) { ... }

    let a = box 3i;
    foo(&*a);

[breaking-change]
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libsyntax/print')
-rw-r--r--src/libsyntax/print/pprust.rs2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libsyntax/print/pprust.rs b/src/libsyntax/print/pprust.rs
index 428a15cb8cf..10caaea86cf 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/print/pprust.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/print/pprust.rs
@@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@ impl<'a> State<'a> {
             ast::SelfExplicit(ref typ, _) => {
                 try!(word(&mut self.s, "self"));
                 try!(self.word_space(":"));
-                try!(self.print_type(*typ));
+                try!(self.print_type(&**typ));
             }
         }
         return Ok(true);