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Diffstat (limited to 'src/liballoc/arc.rs')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/liballoc/arc.rs b/src/liballoc/arc.rs index 9c9f1e7b9de..b54b71cabd1 100644 --- a/src/liballoc/arc.rs +++ b/src/liballoc/arc.rs @@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ const MAX_REFCOUNT: usize = (isize::MAX) as usize; /// does not use atomics, making it both thread-unsafe as well as significantly /// faster when updating the reference count. /// +/// Note: the inherent methods defined on `Arc<T>` are all associated functions, +/// which means that you have to call them as e.g. `Arc::get_mut(&value)` +/// instead of `value.get_mut()`. This is so that there are no conflicts with +/// methods on the inner type `T`, which are what you want to call in the +/// majority of cases. +/// /// # Examples /// /// In this example, a large vector of data will be shared by several threads. First we |