Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] rust: types: avoid `as` casts

[Tamir Duberstein]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 8:15 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 1:22 PM Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > guess the compiler derefs *mut T to *const T before the cast() to
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> I guess you mean "coerces"? i.e. there shouldn't be a deref, no?

I was using "deref" in "deref coercion" sense:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Deref.html#deref-coercion

But it seems that what's really going on is indeed automatic coercion
before the cast() call.