From 8d9df99fbbefd4e394c932309c1453b5a92d93b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulysse Carion Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:30:13 -0700 Subject: Explicate what "Rc" and "Arc" stand for. --- src/liballoc/arc.rs | 3 ++- src/liballoc/rc.rs | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/liballoc') diff --git a/src/liballoc/arc.rs b/src/liballoc/arc.rs index 5faf4dcccaf..81e97334e3c 100644 --- a/src/liballoc/arc.rs +++ b/src/liballoc/arc.rs @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ use heap::deallocate; /// necessarily) at _exactly_ `MAX_REFCOUNT + 1` references. const MAX_REFCOUNT: usize = (isize::MAX) as usize; -/// A thread-safe reference-counting pointer. +/// A thread-safe reference-counting pointer. "Arc" stands for "Atomically +/// Reference Counted". /// /// The type `Arc` provides shared ownership of a value of type `T`, /// allocated in the heap. Invoking [`clone`][clone] on `Arc` produces diff --git a/src/liballoc/rc.rs b/src/liballoc/rc.rs index 33951b911dd..d5d003ed5bb 100644 --- a/src/liballoc/rc.rs +++ b/src/liballoc/rc.rs @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ #![allow(deprecated)] -//! Single-threaded reference-counting pointers. +//! Single-threaded reference-counting pointers. "Rc" stands for "Reference +//! Counted". //! //! The type [`Rc`][`Rc`] provides shared ownership of a value of type `T`, //! allocated in the heap. Invoking [`clone`][clone] on [`Rc`] produces a new -- cgit 1.4.1-3-g733a5