On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 09:37:43AM -0500, Tamir Duberstein wrote: > Allow implementors to specify the foreign pointer type; this exposes > information about the pointed-to type such as its alignment. > > This requires the trait to be `unsafe` since it is now possible for > implementors to break soundness by returning a misaligned pointer. > > Encoding the pointer type in the trait (and avoiding pointer casts) > allows the compiler to check that implementors return the correct > pointer type. This is preferable to directly encoding the alignment in > the trait using a constant as the compiler would be unable to check it. > > Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx>
