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-// Copyright 2012-2014 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.
-
-//! Unsafe casting functions
-
-use mem;
-use intrinsics;
-use ptr::copy_nonoverlapping_memory;
-
-/**
- * Transform a value of one type into a value of another type.
- * Both types must have the same size and alignment.
- *
- * # Example
- *
- * ```rust
- * use std::cast;
- *
- * let v: &[u8] = unsafe { cast::transmute("L") };
- * assert!(v == [76u8]);
- * ```
- */
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn transmute<T, U>(thing: T) -> U {
-    intrinsics::transmute(thing)
-}
-
-/**
- * Move a thing into the void
- *
- * The forget function will take ownership of the provided value but neglect
- * to run any required cleanup or memory-management operations on it.
- */
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn forget<T>(thing: T) { intrinsics::forget(thing); }
-
-/// Casts the value at `src` to U. The two types must have the same length.
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn transmute_copy<T, U>(src: &T) -> U {
-    let mut dest: U = mem::uninit();
-    let dest_ptr: *mut u8 = transmute(&mut dest);
-    let src_ptr: *u8 = transmute(src);
-    copy_nonoverlapping_memory(dest_ptr, src_ptr, mem::size_of::<U>());
-    dest
-}
-
-/// Coerce an immutable reference to be mutable.
-#[inline]
-#[deprecated="casting &T to &mut T is undefined behaviour: use Cell<T>, RefCell<T> or Unsafe<T>"]
-pub unsafe fn transmute_mut<'a,T>(ptr: &'a T) -> &'a mut T { transmute(ptr) }
-
-/// Coerce a reference to have an arbitrary associated lifetime.
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn transmute_lifetime<'a,'b,T>(ptr: &'a T) -> &'b T {
-    transmute(ptr)
-}
-
-/// Coerce an immutable reference to be mutable.
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn transmute_mut_unsafe<T>(ptr: *T) -> *mut T {
-    transmute(ptr)
-}
-
-/// Coerce a mutable reference to have an arbitrary associated lifetime.
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn transmute_mut_lifetime<'a,'b,T>(ptr: &'a mut T) -> &'b mut T {
-    transmute(ptr)
-}
-
-/// Transforms lifetime of the second pointer to match the first.
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn copy_lifetime<'a,S,T>(_ptr: &'a S, ptr: &T) -> &'a T {
-    transmute_lifetime(ptr)
-}
-
-/// Transforms lifetime of the second pointer to match the first.
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn copy_mut_lifetime<'a,S,T>(_ptr: &'a mut S, ptr: &mut T) -> &'a mut T {
-    transmute_mut_lifetime(ptr)
-}
-
-/// Transforms lifetime of the second pointer to match the first.
-#[inline]
-pub unsafe fn copy_lifetime_vec<'a,S,T>(_ptr: &'a [S], ptr: &T) -> &'a T {
-    transmute_lifetime(ptr)
-}
-
-
-/****************************************************************************
- * Tests
- ****************************************************************************/
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod tests {
-    use cast::transmute;
-    use raw;
-    use realstd::str::StrAllocating;
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_transmute_copy() {
-        assert_eq!(1u, unsafe { ::cast::transmute_copy(&1) });
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_transmute() {
-        unsafe {
-            let x = @100u8;
-            let x: *raw::Box<u8> = transmute(x);
-            assert!((*x).data == 100);
-            let _x: @int = transmute(x);
-        }
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_transmute2() {
-        unsafe {
-            assert_eq!(box [76u8], transmute("L".to_owned()));
-        }
-    }
-}