Switch to CoercePointee macro, with examples #1130
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This draft demonstrates the new capability from the current Rust Nightly, which now supports the
#[derive(CoercePointee)]
macro to derive the key trait implementations, in place of use of unstable language features such asUnsize
andDispatchFromDyn
.An illustrative example is attached for more details in the Rust sample kernel module.
TODO(@wieDasDing): work on the patch epilogue a bit more