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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstd')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstd/core.rc | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstd/libc.rs | 4 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd/core.rc b/src/libstd/core.rc index 8e09a9b17fd..f37f65c1edc 100644 --- a/src/libstd/core.rc +++ b/src/libstd/core.rc @@ -12,19 +12,20 @@ # The Rust standard library -The Rust standard library provides runtime features required by the language, -including the task scheduler and memory allocators, as well as library -support for Rust built-in types, platform abstractions, and other commonly -used features. - -`std` includes modules corresponding to each of the integer types, each of -the floating point types, the `bool` type, tuples, characters, strings -(`str`), vectors (`vec`), managed boxes (`managed`), owned boxes (`owned`), -and unsafe and borrowed pointers (`ptr`). Additionally, `std` provides -pervasive types (`option` and `result`), task creation and communication -primitives (`task`, `comm`), platform abstractions (`os` and `path`), basic -I/O abstractions (`io`), common traits (`kinds`, `ops`, `cmp`, `num`, -`to_str`), and complete bindings to the C standard library (`libc`). +The Rust standard library is a group of interrelated modules defining +the core language traits, operations on built-in data types, collections, +platform abstractions, the task scheduler, runtime support for language +features and other common functionality. + +`std` includes modules corresponding to each of the integer types, +each of the floating point types, the `bool` type, tuples, characters, +strings (`str`), vectors (`vec`), managed boxes (`managed`), owned +boxes (`owned`), and unsafe and borrowed pointers (`ptr`, `borrowed`). +Additionally, `std` provides pervasive types (`option` and `result`), +task creation and communication primitives (`task`, `comm`), platform +abstractions (`os` and `path`), basic I/O abstractions (`io`), common +traits (`kinds`, `ops`, `cmp`, `num`, `to_str`), and complete bindings +to the C standard library (`libc`). # Standard library injection and the Rust prelude @@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ with the `std::` path prefix, as in `use std::vec`, `use std::task::spawn`, etc. Additionally, `std` contains a `prelude` module that reexports many of the -most common std modules, types and traits. The contents of the prelude are +most common types, traits and functions. The contents of the prelude are imported into every *module* by default. Implicitly, all modules behave as if they contained the following prologue: @@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ they contained the following prologue: #[deny(non_camel_case_types)]; #[deny(missing_doc)]; -// Make core testable by not duplicating lang items. See #2912 +// Make std testable by not duplicating lang items. See #2912 #[cfg(test)] extern mod realstd(name = "std"); #[cfg(test)] pub use kinds = realstd::kinds; #[cfg(test)] pub use ops = realstd::ops; diff --git a/src/libstd/libc.rs b/src/libstd/libc.rs index 26205c930f0..37562a014fb 100644 --- a/src/libstd/libc.rs +++ b/src/libstd/libc.rs @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ * This module contains bindings to the C standard library, * organized into modules by their defining standard. * Additionally, it contains some assorted platform-specific definitions. -* For convenience, most functions and types are reexported from `core::libc`, -* so `pub use core::libc::*` will import the available +* For convenience, most functions and types are reexported from `std::libc`, +* so `pub use std::libc::*` will import the available * C bindings as appropriate for the target platform. The exact * set of functions available are platform specific. * |