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1//! # The Rust core allocation and collections library
2//!
3//! This library provides smart pointers and collections for managing
4//! heap-allocated values.
5//!
6//! This library, like core, normally doesn’t need to be used directly
7//! since its contents are re-exported in the [`std` crate](../std/index.html).
8//! Crates that use the `#![no_std]` attribute however will typically
9//! not depend on `std`, so they’d use this crate instead.
10//!
11//! ## Boxed values
12//!
13//! The [`Box`] type is a smart pointer type. There can only be one owner of a
14//! [`Box`], and the owner can decide to mutate the contents, which live on the
15//! heap.
16//!
17//! This type can be sent among threads efficiently as the size of a `Box` value
18//! is the same as that of a pointer. Tree-like data structures are often built
19//! with boxes because each node often has only one owner, the parent.
20//!
21//! ## Reference counted pointers
22//!
23//! The [`Rc`] type is a non-threadsafe reference-counted pointer type intended
24//! for sharing memory within a thread. An [`Rc`] pointer wraps a type, `T`, and
25//! only allows access to `&T`, a shared reference.
26//!
27//! This type is useful when inherited mutability (such as using [`Box`]) is too
28//! constraining for an application, and is often paired with the [`Cell`] or
29//! [`RefCell`] types in order to allow mutation.
30//!
31//! ## Atomically reference counted pointers
32//!
33//! The [`Arc`] type is the threadsafe equivalent of the [`Rc`] type. It
34//! provides all the same functionality of [`Rc`], except it requires that the
35//! contained type `T` is shareable. Additionally, [`Arc<T>`][`Arc`] is itself
36//! sendable while [`Rc<T>`][`Rc`] is not.
37//!
38//! This type allows for shared access to the contained data, and is often
39//! paired with synchronization primitives such as mutexes to allow mutation of
40//! shared resources.
41//!
42//! ## Collections
43//!
44//! Implementations of the most common general purpose data structures are
45//! defined in this library. They are re-exported through the
46//! [standard collections library](../std/collections/index.html).
47//!
48//! ## Heap interfaces
49//!
50//! The [`alloc`](alloc/index.html) module defines the low-level interface to the
51//! default global allocator. It is not compatible with the libc allocator API.
52//!
53//! [`Arc`]: sync
54//! [`Box`]: boxed
55//! [`Cell`]: core::cell
56//! [`Rc`]: rc
57//! [`RefCell`]: core::cell
58
59#![allow(unused_features)]
60#![allow(incomplete_features)]
61#![allow(unused_attributes)]
62#![stable(feature = "alloc", since = "1.36.0")]
63#![doc(
64    html_playground_url = "https://play.rust-lang.org/",
65    issue_tracker_base_url = "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/",
66    test(no_crate_inject, attr(allow(unused_variables, duplicate_features), deny(warnings)))
67)]
68#![doc(auto_cfg(hide(no_global_oom_handling, no_rc, no_sync, target_has_atomic = "ptr")))]
69#![doc(rust_logo)]
70#![feature(rustdoc_internals)]
71#![no_std]
72#![needs_allocator]
73// Lints:
74#![deny(unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn)]
75#![deny(fuzzy_provenance_casts)]
76#![warn(deprecated_in_future)]
77#![warn(missing_debug_implementations)]
78#![warn(missing_docs)]
79#![allow(explicit_outlives_requirements)]
80#![warn(multiple_supertrait_upcastable)]
81#![allow(internal_features)]
82#![allow(rustdoc::redundant_explicit_links)]
83#![warn(rustdoc::unescaped_backticks)]
84#![deny(ffi_unwind_calls)]
85#![warn(unreachable_pub)]
86//
87// Ferrocene addition: We removed the tidy directives for alphabetical ordering to reduce the number
88// of conflicts we have when merging main.
89//
90// Library features:
91// tidy-alphabetical-start
92#![feature(allocator_api)]
93#![feature(array_into_iter_constructors)]
94#![feature(ascii_char)]
95#![feature(async_fn_traits)]
96#![feature(async_iterator)]
97#![feature(bstr)]
98#![feature(bstr_internals)]
99#![feature(case_ignorable)]
100#![feature(cast_maybe_uninit)]
101#![feature(cell_get_cloned)]
102#![feature(char_internals)]
103#![feature(clone_to_uninit)]
104#![feature(coerce_unsized)]
105#![feature(const_clone)]
106#![feature(const_cmp)]
107#![feature(const_convert)]
108#![feature(const_default)]
109#![feature(const_destruct)]
110#![feature(const_eval_select)]
111#![feature(const_heap)]
112#![feature(const_index)]
113#![feature(const_option_ops)]
114#![feature(const_try)]
115#![feature(copied_into_inner)]
116#![feature(core_intrinsics)]
117#![feature(deprecated_suggestion)]
118#![feature(deref_pure_trait)]
119#![feature(diagnostic_on_move)]
120#![feature(dispatch_from_dyn)]
121#![feature(ergonomic_clones)]
122#![feature(error_generic_member_access)]
123#![feature(exact_size_is_empty)]
124#![feature(extend_one)]
125#![feature(extend_one_unchecked)]
126#![feature(fmt_arguments_from_str)]
127#![feature(fmt_internals)]
128#![feature(fn_traits)]
129#![feature(formatting_options)]
130#![feature(freeze)]
131#![feature(generic_atomic)]
132#![feature(hasher_prefixfree_extras)]
133#![feature(inplace_iteration)]
134#![feature(iter_advance_by)]
135#![feature(iter_next_chunk)]
136#![feature(layout_for_ptr)]
137#![feature(legacy_receiver_trait)]
138#![feature(likely_unlikely)]
139#![feature(local_waker)]
140#![feature(maybe_uninit_uninit_array_transpose)]
141#![feature(panic_internals)]
142#![feature(pattern)]
143#![feature(pin_coerce_unsized_trait)]
144#![feature(ptr_alignment_type)]
145#![feature(ptr_internals)]
146#![feature(ptr_metadata)]
147#![feature(rev_into_inner)]
148#![feature(set_ptr_value)]
149#![feature(sized_type_properties)]
150#![feature(slice_from_ptr_range)]
151#![feature(slice_index_methods)]
152#![feature(slice_iter_mut_as_mut_slice)]
153#![feature(slice_ptr_get)]
154#![feature(slice_range)]
155#![feature(std_internals)]
156#![feature(temporary_niche_types)]
157#![feature(titlecase)]
158#![feature(transmutability)]
159#![feature(trivial_clone)]
160#![feature(trusted_fused)]
161#![feature(trusted_len)]
162#![feature(trusted_random_access)]
163#![feature(try_blocks)]
164#![feature(try_trait_v2)]
165#![feature(try_trait_v2_residual)]
166#![feature(try_with_capacity)]
167#![feature(tuple_trait)]
168#![feature(ub_checks)]
169#![feature(unicode_internals)]
170#![feature(unsize)]
171#![feature(unwrap_infallible)]
172#![feature(wtf8_internals)]
173// tidy-alphabetical-end
174//
175// Language features:
176// not-alphabetical-start
177#![feature(allocator_internals)]
178#![feature(allow_internal_unstable)]
179#![feature(cfg_sanitize)]
180#![feature(const_precise_live_drops)]
181#![feature(const_trait_impl)]
182#![feature(coroutine_trait)]
183#![feature(decl_macro)]
184#![feature(dropck_eyepatch)]
185#![feature(fundamental)]
186#![feature(intrinsics)]
187#![feature(lang_items)]
188#![feature(min_specialization)]
189#![feature(multiple_supertrait_upcastable)]
190#![feature(negative_impls)]
191#![feature(never_type)]
192#![feature(optimize_attribute)]
193#![feature(rustc_attrs)]
194#![feature(slice_internals)]
195#![feature(staged_api)]
196#![feature(stmt_expr_attributes)]
197#![feature(strict_provenance_lints)]
198#![feature(unboxed_closures)]
199#![feature(unsized_fn_params)]
200#![feature(with_negative_coherence)]
201#![rustc_preserve_ub_checks]
202// not-alphabetical-end
203//
204// Rustdoc features:
205#![feature(doc_cfg)]
206// Technically, this is a bug in rustdoc: rustdoc sees the documentation on `#[lang = slice_alloc]`
207// blocks is for `&[T]`, which also has documentation using this feature in `core`, and gets mad
208// that the feature-gate isn't enabled. Ideally, it wouldn't check for the feature gate for docs
209// from other crates, but since this can only appear for lang items, it doesn't seem worth fixing.
210#![feature(intra_doc_pointers)]
211
212// Module with internal macros used by other modules (needs to be included before other modules).
213#[macro_use]
214mod macros;
215
216mod raw_vec;
217
218// Heaps provided for low-level allocation strategies
219pub mod alloc;
220
221// Primitive types using the heaps above
222
223// Need to conditionally define the mod from `boxed.rs` to avoid
224// duplicating the lang-items when building in test cfg; but also need
225// to allow code to have `use boxed::Box;` declarations.
226pub mod borrow;
227pub mod boxed;
228#[unstable(feature = "bstr", issue = "134915")]
229pub mod bstr;
230pub mod collections;
231#[cfg(all(not(no_rc), not(no_sync), not(no_global_oom_handling)))]
232pub mod ffi;
233pub mod fmt;
234pub mod intrinsics;
235#[cfg(not(no_rc))]
236pub mod rc;
237pub mod slice;
238pub mod str;
239pub mod string;
240#[cfg(all(not(no_rc), not(no_sync), target_has_atomic = "ptr"))]
241pub mod sync;
242#[cfg(all(not(no_global_oom_handling), not(no_rc), not(no_sync)))]
243pub mod task;
244pub mod vec;
245#[cfg(all(not(no_rc), not(no_sync), not(no_global_oom_handling)))]
246pub mod wtf8;
247
248#[doc(hidden)]
249#[unstable(feature = "liballoc_internals", issue = "none", reason = "implementation detail")]
250pub mod __export {
251    pub use core::format_args;
252    pub use core::hint::must_use;
253}