Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 months agoPretty straight forwardswg-empire.deimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1735arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1723arrow-down1imagePretty straight forwardswg-empire.deBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.de to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTraister101@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAh yes now I can… dereference a raw pointer (yes that’s essentially the only thing unsafe rust actually enables you to do, it doesn’t disable the borrow checker or anything else, it just allows you to play with pointers)
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agounsafe fn<'a, T>(p: &'a T) -> &'static mut T { p as *cons T as *mut T as &'static mut T } It is a bit more than just dereferencing raw pointers.
Ah yes now I can… dereference a raw pointer (yes that’s essentially the only thing unsafe rust actually enables you to do, it doesn’t disable the borrow checker or anything else, it just allows you to play with pointers)
unsafe fn<'a, T>(p: &'a T) -> &'static mut T { p as *cons T as *mut T as &'static mut T }It is a bit more than just dereferencing raw pointers.