fix def.n of dangling

pull/158/head
Ralf Jung 5 years ago committed by Alexis Beingessner
parent 121a5a01a1
commit 052159694e

@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ language cares about is preventing the following things:
"Producing" a value happens any time a value is assigned, passed to a "Producing" a value happens any time a value is assigned, passed to a
function/primitive operation or returned from a function/primitive operation. function/primitive operation or returned from a function/primitive operation.
A reference/pointer is "dangling" if not all of the bytes it points to are part A reference/pointer is "dangling" if it is null or not all of the bytes it
of the same allocation. In particular, null pointers are dangling. The span of bytes it points to are part of the same allocation. The span of bytes it points to is
points to is determined by the pointer value and the size of the pointee type. determined by the pointer value and the size of the pointee type. If the span
If the span is empty, "dangling" is the same as "non-null". is empty, "dangling" is the same as "non-null".
That's it. That's all the causes of Undefined Behavior baked into Rust. Of That's it. That's all the causes of Undefined Behavior baked into Rust. Of
course, unsafe functions and traits are free to declare arbitrary other course, unsafe functions and traits are free to declare arbitrary other

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