Is it sound to split an `UnsafeCell` into multiple `UnsafeCell`s?

[joshlf]

Miri doesn't complain about the following code, but is this guaranteed to be sound?

fn main() {
    let x = UnsafeCell::new([0u8; 2]);
    let x = &x;
    let x_ptr: *const UnsafeCell<[u8; 2]> = x;
    let y_ptr = x_ptr as *const [UnsafeCell<u8>; 2];
    let _y = unsafe { &*y_ptr };
}

I read #451 (comment) as implying this is intended to be sound, but I wanted to double-check.

[RalfJung]

Isn't this basically https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/cell/struct.Cell.html#method.as_array_of_cells ?

[RalfJung]

Also I'd say this is a duplicate of #451; projection to struct fields and array "fields" should behave the same.

[joshlf]

Sounds good, that's what I figured. Thanks!