Eliminate ZST allocations in `Box` and `Vec`
This PR fixes 2 issues with `Box` and `RawVec` related to ZST allocations. Specifically, the `Allocator` trait requires that:
- If you allocate a zero-sized layout then you must later deallocate it, otherwise the allocator may leak memory.
- You cannot pass a ZST pointer to the allocator that you haven't previously allocated.
These restrictions exist because an allocator implementation is allowed to allocate non-zero amounts of memory for a zero-sized allocation. For example, `malloc` in libc does this.
Currently, ZSTs are handled differently in `Box` and `Vec`:
- `Vec` never allocates when `T` is a ZST or if the vector capacity is 0.
- `Box` just blindly passes everything on to the allocator, including ZSTs.
This causes problems due to the free conversions between `Box<[T]>` and `Vec<T>`, specifically that ZST allocations could get leaked or a dangling pointer could be passed to `deallocate`.
This PR fixes this by changing `Box` to not allocate for zero-sized values and slices. It also fixes a bug in `RawVec::shrink` where shrinking to a size of zero did not actually free the backing memory.
Revert "alloc: Allow comparing Boxs over different allocators", add regression test
Temporary fix for #113283
Adds a test to fix the regression introduced in 001b081cc1 and revert that commit. The test fails without the revert.
This reverts commit 001b081cc1.
This change was done as the above commit introduces a regression in type
inference. Regression test located at
`tests/ui/type-inference/issue-113283-alllocator-trait-eq.rs`
Allow comparing `Box`es with different allocators
Currently, comparing `Box`es over different allocators is not allowed:
```Rust
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> library/alloc/tests/boxed.rs:22:20
|
22 | assert_eq!(b1, b2);
| ^^ expected `Box<{integer}, ConstAllocator>`, found `Box<{integer}, AnotherAllocator>`
|
= note: expected struct `Box<{integer}, ConstAllocator>`
found struct `Box<{integer}, AnotherAllocator>`
For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0308`.
error: could not compile `alloc` (test "collectionstests") due to previous error
```
This PR lifts this limitation
remove unused field
Followup to #104455. The field is no longer needed since ExtractIf (previously DrainFilter) doesn't keep draining in its drop impl.
Implement PartialOrd for `Vec`s over different allocators
It is already possible to `PartialEq` `Vec`s with different allocators, but that is not the case with `PartialOrd`.
This is an `Rc` that is guaranteed to only have one strong reference.
Because it is uniquely owned, it can safely implement `DerefMut`, which
allows programs to have an initialization phase where structures inside
the `Rc` can be mutated.
The `UniqueRc` can then be converted to a regular `Rc`, allowing sharing
and but read-only access.
During the "initialization phase," weak references can be created, but
attempting to upgrade these will fail until the `UniqueRc` has been
converted to a regular `Rc`. This feature can be useful to create
cyclic data structures.
This API is an implementation based on the feedback provided to the ACP
at https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/90.
Remove `box_free` lang item
This PR removes the `box_free` lang item, replacing it with `Box`'s `Drop` impl. Box dropping is still slightly magic because the contained value is still dropped by the compiler.
Stabilize String::leak
Stabilizes the following API:
```Rust
impl String {
pub fn leak(self) -> &'static mut str;
}
```
closes#102929
blocked by having an FCP for stabilization.
Ignore `core`, `alloc` and `test` tests that require unwinding on `-C panic=abort`
Some of the tests for `core` and `alloc` require unwinding through their use of `catch_unwind`. These tests fail when testing using `-C panic=abort` (in my case through a target without unwinding support, and `-Z panic-abort-tests`), while they should be ignored as they don't indicate a failure.
This PR marks all of these tests with this attribute:
```rust
#[cfg_attr(not(panic = "unwind"), ignore = "test requires unwinding support")]
```
I'm not aware of a way to test this on rust-lang/rust's CI, as we don't test any target with `-C panic=abort`, but I tested this locally on a Ferrocene target and it does indeed make the test suite pass.
