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Auto merge of rust-lang#76241 - RalfJung:flt2dec, r=Mark-Simulacrum
flt2dec: properly handle uninitialized memory
The float-to-str code currently uses uninitialized memory incorrectly (see rust-lang#76092). This PR fixes that.
Specifically, that code used `&mut [T]` as "out references", but it would be incorrect for the caller to actually pass uninitialized memory. So the PR changes this to `&mut [MaybeUninit<T>]`, and then functions return a `&[T]` to the part of the buffer that they initialized (some functions already did that, indirectly via `&Formatted`, others were adjusted to return that buffer instead of just the initialized length).
What I particularly like about this is that it moves `unsafe` to the right place: previously, the outermost caller had to use `unsafe` to assert that things are initialized; now it is the functions that do the actual initializing which have the corresponding `unsafe` block when they call `MaybeUninit::slice_get_ref` (renamed in rust-lang#76217 to `slice_assume_init_ref`).
Reviewers please be aware that I have no idea how any of this code actually works. My changes were purely mechanical and type-driven. The test suite passes so I guess I didn't screw up badly...
Cc @sfackler this is somewhat related to your RFC, and possibly some of this code could benefit from (a generalized version of) the API you describe there. But for now I think what I did is "good enough".
Fixesrust-lang#76092.
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