Auto merge of #117843 - Mark-Simulacrum:stable-next, r=Mark-Simulacrum 1.74.0

[stable] Prepare 1.74.0 release

https://forge.rust-lang.org/release/process.html#promote-branches-t-3-days-monday

Also backports:

* Disabling specialization as an alternative backport of "Fix excessive initialization and reads beyond EOF in io::copy(_, Vec<u8>) specialization #117576"
*  coverage: Avoid creating malformed macro name spans #117827

r? `@Mark-Simulacrum`

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/run-coverage/auxiliary/macro_name_span_helper.rs b/tests/run-coverage/auxiliary/macro_name_span_helper.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6797c081d93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-coverage/auxiliary/macro_name_span_helper.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// edition: 2021
+
+#[macro_export]
+macro_rules! macro_that_defines_a_function {
+    (fn $name:ident () $body:tt) => {
+        fn $name () -> () $body
+    }
+}
+
+// Non-executable comment.