first attempt at implementing RFC 1623. This fixes #35897.

This is a work in progress. In particular, I want to add more tests,
especially the compile-fail test is very bare-bones.

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diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/rfc1623.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/rfc1623.rs
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+// Copyright 2012 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+#![allow(dead_code)]
+
+fn non_elidable<'a, 'b>(a: &'a u8, b: &'b u8) -> &'a u8 { a }
+
+// the boundaries of elision
+static NON_ELIDABLE_FN : &fn(&u8, &u8) -> &u8 = non_elidable;
+//~^ERROR: missing lifetime specifier
+
+fn main() {
+    // nothing to do here
+}