Add more description for from_raw_parts's unsafety

Fixes #26737.
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Steve Klabnik 2015-07-02 13:00:58 -04:00
parent 50cb22f8e0
commit 57eed53041
2 changed files with 18 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -317,9 +317,14 @@ pub fn from_utf16_lossy(v: &[u16]) -> String {
/// Creates a new `String` from a length, capacity, and pointer.
///
/// This is unsafe because:
/// # Unsafety
///
/// * We call `Vec::from_raw_parts` to get a `Vec<u8>`;
/// This is _very_ unsafe because:
///
/// * We call `Vec::from_raw_parts` to get a `Vec<u8>`. Therefore, this
/// function inherits all of its unsafety, see [its
/// documentation](../vec/struct.Vec.html#method.from_raw_parts)
/// for the invariants it expects, they also apply to this function.
/// * We assume that the `Vec` contains valid UTF-8.
#[inline]
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]

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@ -227,7 +227,17 @@ pub fn with_capacity(capacity: usize) -> Vec<T> {
/// Creates a `Vec<T>` directly from the raw components of another vector.
///
/// This is highly unsafe, due to the number of invariants that aren't checked.
/// # Unsafety
///
/// This is highly unsafe, due to the number of invariants that aren't
/// checked:
///
/// * `ptr` needs to have been previously allocated via `String`/`Vec<T>`
/// (at least, it's highly likely to be incorrect if it wasn't).
/// * `capacity` needs to be the capacity that the pointer was allocated with.
///
/// Violating these may cause problems like corrupting the allocator's
/// internal datastructures.
///
/// # Examples
///