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The ability to interoperate with C code via FFI is not limited to crates
using std; this allows using these types without std.
The existing types in `std::os::raw` become type aliases for the ones in
`core::ffi`. This uses type aliases rather than re-exports, to allow the
std types to remain stable while the core types are unstable.
This also moves the currently unstable `NonZero_` variants and
`c_size_t`/`c_ssize_t`/`c_ptrdiff_t` types to `core::ffi`, while leaving
them unstable.
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Specifically, ISO/IEC 9899:2018 — better known as "C18" — (and at least
C11, C99 and C89) do not specify the size of `byte` in bits.
Section 3.6 defines "byte" as "addressable unit of data storage" while
section 6.2.5 ("Types") only defines "char" as "large enough to store
any member of the basic execution set" giving it a lower bound of 7 bit
(since there are 96 characters in the basic execution set).
With section 6.5.3.4 paragraph 4 "When sizeof is applied to an operant
that has type char […] the result is 1" you could read this as the size
of `char` in bits being defined as exactly the same as the number of
bits in a byte but it's also valid to read that as an exception.
In general implementations take `char` as the smallest unit of
addressable memory, which for modern byte-addressed architectures is
overwhelmingly 8 bits to the point of this convention being completely
cemented into just about all of our software.
So is any of this actually relevant at all? I hope not. I sincerely hope
that this never, ever comes up.
But if for some reason a poor rustacean is having to interface with C
code running on a Cray X1 that in 2003 is still doing word-addressed
memory with 64-bit words and they trust the docs here blindly it will
blow up in her face. And I'll be truly sorry for her to have to deal
with … all of that.
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I'm pretty sure I am going want this for #73125 and it seems like an
omission that would be in any case good to remedy.
It's a shame we don't have competent token pasting and case mangling
for use in macro_rules!.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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This file contained a lot of repetitive code. This was about to get
considerably worse, with introduction of a slew of new aliases.
No functional change. I've eyeballed the docs and they don't seem to
have changed either.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
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Also doing fmt inplace as requested.
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