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The Rust Core Library

The Rust Core Library is the dependency-free1 foundation of The Rust Standard Library. It is the portable glue between the language and its libraries, defining the intrinsic and primitive building blocks of all Rust code. It links to no upstream libraries, no system libraries, and no libc.

The core library is minimal: it isn't even aware of heap allocation, nor does it provide concurrency or I/O. These things require platform integration, and this library is platform-agnostic.

How to use the core library

Please note that all of these details are currently not considered stable.

This library is built on the assumption of a few existing symbols:


  1. Strictly speaking, there are some symbols which are needed but they aren't always necessary. 

Modules

any

This module implements the Any trait, which enables dynamic typing of any 'static type through runtime reflection.

borrow

A module for working with borrowed data.

cell

Shareable mutable containers.

char

Character manipulation.

clone

The Clone trait for types that cannot be 'implicitly copied'.

cmp

Functionality for ordering and comparison.

convert

Traits for conversions between types.

default

The Default trait for types which may have meaningful default values.

f32

This module provides constants which are specific to the implementation of the f32 floating point data type.

f64

This module provides constants which are specific to the implementation of the f64 floating point data type.

fmt

Utilities for formatting and printing strings.

hash

Generic hashing support.

i8

The 8-bit signed integer type.

i16

The 16-bit signed integer type.

i32

The 32-bit signed integer type.

i64

The 64-bit signed integer type.

isize

The pointer-sized signed integer type.

iter

Composable external iteration.

marker

Primitive traits and types representing basic properties of types.

mem

Basic functions for dealing with memory.

num

Numeric traits and functions for the built-in numeric types.

ops

Overloadable operators.

option

Optional values.

prelude

The libcore prelude

ptr

Raw, unsafe pointers, *const T, and *mut T.

result

Error handling with the Result type.

slice

Slice management and manipulation

str

String manipulation

sync

Synchronization primitives

time

Temporal quantification.

u8

The 8-bit unsigned integer type.

u16

The 16-bit unsigned integer type.

u32

The 32-bit unsigned integer type.

u64

The 64-bit unsigned integer type.

usize

The pointer-sized unsigned integer type.

array [
Experimental
]

Implementations of things like Eq for fixed-length arrays up to a certain length. Eventually we should able to generalize to all lengths.

i128 [
Experimental
]

The 128-bit signed integer type.

intrinsics [
Experimental
]

rustc compiler intrinsics.

nonzero [
Experimental
]

Exposes the NonZero lang item which provides optimization hints.

panicking [
Experimental
]

Panic support for libcore

raw [
Experimental
]

Contains struct definitions for the layout of compiler built-in types.

u128 [
Experimental
]

The 128-bit unsigned integer type.

Macros

assert

Ensure that a boolean expression is true at runtime.

assert_eq

Asserts that two expressions are equal to each other (using PartialEq).

assert_ne

Asserts that two expressions are not equal to each other (using PartialEq).

cfg

Boolean evaluation of configuration flags, at compile-time.

column

A macro which expands to the column number on which it was invoked.

compile_error

Unconditionally causes compilation to fail with the given error message when encountered.

concat

Concatenates literals into a static string slice.

debug_assert

Ensure that a boolean expression is true at runtime.

debug_assert_eq

Asserts that two expressions are equal to each other.

debug_assert_ne

Asserts that two expressions are not equal to each other.

env

Inspect an environment variable at compile time.

file

A macro which expands to the file name from which it was invoked.

format_args

The core macro for formatted string creation & output.

include

Parse a file as an expression or an item according to the context.

include_bytes

Includes a file as a reference to a byte array.

include_str

Includes a utf8-encoded file as a string.

line

A macro which expands to the line number on which it was invoked.

module_path

Expands to a string that represents the current module path.

option_env

Optionally inspect an environment variable at compile time.

panic

Entry point of thread panic, for details, see std::macros

stringify

A macro which stringifies its arguments.

try

Helper macro for reducing boilerplate code for matching Result together with converting downstream errors.

unimplemented

A standardized placeholder for marking unfinished code.

unreachable

A utility macro for indicating unreachable code.

write

Write formatted data into a buffer.

writeln

Write formatted data into a buffer, with a newline appended.

concat_idents [
Experimental
]

Concatenate identifiers into one identifier.