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str api should offer a method to convert a &u8 slice into an &str with same lifetime #5422

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nikomatsakis opened this issue Mar 18, 2013 · 4 comments
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Since strs and vecs share the same representation, there should be a way to "cast" a &u8 slice into an &str with the same lifetime.

There are a few FIXMEs in tydecode where this could save a copy.

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sanxiyn commented Mar 18, 2013

Isn't this an unsafe operation? Not all &u8 are valid &str.

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I presumed there'd be an assertion as well as an unsafe variant, as we have for str::from_bytes

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Kimundi commented May 24, 2013

@nikomatsakis Could you confirm the PR request did add what was wanted in this issue? I remembered that there where some difficulties to make it work because a &str slice has to cover one byte more than a &[].

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Looks good, thanks.

oli-obk pushed a commit to oli-obk/rust that referenced this issue May 2, 2020
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CONTRIBUTING.md: fix broken triage link

Fixes rust-lang#5421
oli-obk pushed a commit to oli-obk/rust that referenced this issue May 2, 2020
Rollup of 11 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - rust-lang#5406 (Fix update_lints)
 - rust-lang#5409 (Downgrade let_unit_value to pedantic)
 - rust-lang#5410 (Downgrade trivially_copy_pass_by_ref to pedantic)
 - rust-lang#5412 (Downgrade inefficient_to_string to pedantic)
 - rust-lang#5415 (Add new lint for `Result<T, E>.map_or(None, Some(T))`)
 - rust-lang#5417 (Update doc links and mentioned names in docs)
 - rust-lang#5419 (Downgrade unreadable_literal to pedantic)
 - rust-lang#5420 (Downgrade new_ret_no_self to pedantic)
 - rust-lang#5422 (CONTRIBUTING.md: fix broken triage link)
 - rust-lang#5424 (Incorrect suspicious_op_assign_impl)
 - rust-lang#5425 (Ehance opt_as_ref_deref lint.)

Failed merges:

 - rust-lang#5345 (Add lint for float in array comparison)
 - rust-lang#5411 (Downgrade implicit_hasher to pedantic)
 - rust-lang#5428 (Move cognitive_complexity to nursery)

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changelog: rollup
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