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					points to are part of the same allocation (so in particular they all have to be
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					part of *some* allocation). The span of bytes it points to is determined by the
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					pointer value and the size of the pointee type. As a consequence, if the span is
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					empty, "dangling" is the same as "non-null". Note that slices and strings point
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					empty, "dangling" is the same as "null". Note that slices and strings point
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					to their entire range, so it's important that the length metadata is never too
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					large (in particular, allocations and therefore slices and strings cannot be
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					bigger than `isize::MAX` bytes). If for some reason this is too cumbersome,
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