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Rollup merge of rust-lang#32383 - aidanhs:aphs-heap-move-guarantee, r=alexcrichton
Document heap allocation location guarantee
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14:25 < aidanhs> is there any guarantee that boxes will not move the value on the heap when they are moved?
14:26 <@steveklabnik> aidanhs: ... i'm not sure if it's a guarantee, but it follows, generally
14:26 <@steveklabnik> aidanhs: moves mean memcpy, so you're memcpying the structure of the box itself, which is copying the pointer
14:26 <@steveklabnik> so the pointer won't be updated
14:26 <@steveklabnik> moves cannot do complex things like move the memory around on the heap
14:26 <@kmc> aidanhs: I would say it's guaranteed
14:27 < aidanhs> steveklabnik: yeah, that's what I was thinking, it'd be pretty strange for rust to do something, but I couldn't find any docs one way or the other
14:27 <@steveklabnik> kmc: aidanhs yeah, it's like a borderline thing that we don't explicitly guanratee but i think IS guaranteed by our other guarantees
14:27 <@steveklabnik> mostly that move == memcpy
14:28 < aidanhs> kmc: steveklabnik great thanks! would a PR to the rust reference along these lines be ok?
14:28 < jmesmon> aidanhs: I believe owning_ref has some discussion of that (stable references)
14:29 <@steveklabnik> aidanhs: i would probably take that, yeah
14:29 < aidanhs> jmesmon: thanks, I'll take a look at that
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https://botbot.me/mozilla/rust/2016-02-22/?msg=60657619&page=18
r? @steveklabnik
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