Added RFC on dereferencing *T #43
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I'm not in favour of this. Unsafe code is already hard to get right, let alone adding new sources of non-explicitness which can't easily be checked at the source level. |
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| In this case, accessing methods on `UART0` is done with simple syntax, but the actual | ||
| `static UART0` gets into output binary (as u32 0xdeadbeef), which requres developer to make a trade between syntax and binary size. |
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This seems like the more fundamental problem, and the one that would fix your issue: Rust doesn't offer flexible enough control over statics to be able to use safe(r) wrappers for this use case.
(That said, it is just essentially just 8 bytes in rodata, right?)
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It's 4 bytes in rodata, four more instructions to fetch the address from there at each call invocation. That isn't critically significant, but easily adds useless weight to binary.
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Deprecating this in favour of #44 |
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Fixed a typo.
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