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Explain why clippy's HIR const eval exists
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GnomedDev committed Nov 1, 2024
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//! A simple const eval API, for use on arbitrary HIR expressions.
//!
//! This cannot use rustc's const eval, aka miri, as arbitrary HIR expressions cannot be lowered to
//! executable MIR bodies, so we have to do this instead.
#![allow(clippy::float_cmp)]

use crate::macros::HirNode;
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/// The context required to evaluate a constant expression.
///
/// This is currently limited to constant folding and reading the value of named constants.
///
/// See the module level documentation for some context.
pub struct ConstEvalCtxt<'tcx> {
tcx: TyCtxt<'tcx>,
param_env: ParamEnv<'tcx>,
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