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Note source for ivars being guaranteed to be zero-initialized
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madsmtm committed May 28, 2023
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//
// Additionally, the type must be safe to drop even if zero-initialized.
//
// Note that while I couldn't find a reference on whether ivars are
// zero-initialized or not, it has been true since the Objective-C version
// shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 [link] and is generally what one would expect
// coming from C. So I think it's a valid assumption to make!
// Ivars are documented to be zero-initialized in [this section of the
// Objective-C manual][obj-dynamically-created], and that has been true since
// at least [the Objective-C version shipped with Mac OS X 10.0][objc4-208].
//
// [link]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/objc4/blob/objc4-208/runtime/objc-class.m#L367
// [obj-dynamically-created]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/WorkingwithObjects/WorkingwithObjects.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011210-CH4-SW7
// [objc4-208]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/objc4/blob/objc4-208/runtime/objc-class.m#L367
pub unsafe trait InnerIvarType: private::Sealed + Encode {
/// The type that an `Ivar` containing this will dereference to.
///
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