Re: [PATCH v5 00/26] Generic `Allocator` support for Rust

[Alice Ryhl]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 2:33 PM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 11:20:32AM +0200, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 4:52 AM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 12:32:15PM -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > > Hi Danilo,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to put your series on rust-dev, but I hit a few conflicts due
> > > > to the conflict with `Box::drop_contents`, which has been in rust-dev
> > > > for a while. And the conflict is not that trivial for me to resolve.
> > > > So just a head-up, that's a requirement for me to put it on rust-dev for
> > > > more tests from my end ;-)
> > >
> > > I rebased everything and you can fetch them from [1].
> > >
> > > I resolved the following conflicts:
> > >
> > >   - for `Box`, implement
> > >     - `drop_contents`
> > >     - `manually_drop_contents` [2]
> >
> > Not sure I like this name. It sounds like something that runs the
> > destructor, but it does the exact opposite.
>
> I thought it kinda makes sense, since it's analogous to `ManuallyDrop::new`.
>
> What about `Box::forget_contents` instead?

One option is `into_manually_drop`. This uses the convention of using
the `into_*` prefix for conversions that take ownership of the
original value.

Alice