update ptr intrinsics and rewrite vec routines to be more correct.

In particular, it is not valid to go around passing uninitialized or zero'd
memory as arguments. Rust should generally be free to assume that the arguments
it gets are valid input values, but the output of intrinsics::uninit() and
intrinsics::init() are not (e.g., an @T is just null, leading to an error
if we should try to increment the ref count).

src/libstd/ptr.rs

@@ -142,6 +142,30 @@ pub unsafe fn set_memory<T>(dst: *mut T, c: u8, count: uint) {
     memset64(dst, c, count as u64);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Zeroes out `count` bytes of memory at `dst`
+ */
+#[inline]
+#[cfg(not(stage0))]
+pub unsafe fn zero_memory<T>(dst: *mut T, count: uint) {
+    set_memory(dst, 0, count);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Zeroes out `count * size_of::<T>` bytes of memory at `dst`
+ */
+#[inline]
+#[cfg(stage0)]
+pub unsafe fn zero_memory<T>(dst: *mut T, count: uint) {
+    let mut count = count * sys::size_of::<T>();
+    let mut dst = dst as *mut u8;
+    while count > 0 {
+        *dst = 0;
+        dst = mut_offset(dst, 1);
+        count -= 1;
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  * Swap the values at two mutable locations of the same type, without
  * deinitialising or copying either one.
@@ -172,6 +196,32 @@ pub unsafe fn replace_ptr<T>(dest: *mut T, mut src: T) -> T {
     src
 }
 
+/**
+ * Reads the value from `*src` and returns it. Does not copy `*src`.
+ */
+#[inline(always)]
+pub unsafe fn read_ptr<T>(src: *mut T) -> T {
+    let mut tmp: T = intrinsics::uninit();
+    let t: *mut T = &mut tmp;
+    copy_memory(t, src, 1);
+    tmp
+}
+
+/**
+ * Reads the value from `*src` and nulls it out.
+ * This currently prevents destructors from executing.
+ */
+#[inline(always)]
+pub unsafe fn read_and_zero_ptr<T>(dest: *mut T) -> T {
+    // Copy the data out from `dest`:
+    let tmp = read_ptr(dest);
+
+    // Now zero out `dest`:
+    zero_memory(dest, 1);
+
+    tmp
+}
+
 /// Transform a region pointer - &T - to an unsafe pointer - *T.
 #[inline]
 pub fn to_unsafe_ptr<T>(thing: &T) -> *T {