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-rw-r--r--src/librustc/diagnostics.rs3
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diff --git a/src/librustc/diagnostics.rs b/src/librustc/diagnostics.rs
index 7cb2de78e2c..361b8c53108 100644
--- a/src/librustc/diagnostics.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/diagnostics.rs
@@ -858,6 +858,9 @@ It is also possible to manually transmute:
 ```
 ptr::read(&v as *const _ as *const SomeType) // `v` transmuted to `SomeType`
 ```
+
+Note that this does not move `v` (unlike `transmute`), and may need a
+call to `mem::forget(v)` in case you want to avoid destructors being called.
 "##,
 
 E0152: r##"