Re: [PATCH 03/19] rust: types: avoid repetition in `{As,From}Bytes` impls
From: Alice Ryhl
Date: Thu Sep 05 2024 - 03:59:36 EST
On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In order to provide `// SAFETY` comments for every `unsafe impl`, we would
> need to repeat them, which is not very useful and would be harder to read.
>
> We could perhaps allow the lint (ideally within a small module), but we
> can take the chance to avoid the repetition of the `impl`s themselves
> too by using a small local macro, like in other places where we have
> had to do this sort of thing.
>
> Thus add the straightforward `impl_{from,as}bytes!` macros and use them
> to implement `FromBytes`.
>
> This, in turn, will allow us in the next patch to place a `// SAFETY`
> comment that defers to the actual invocation of the macro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>