Function std::intrinsics::drop_in_place 1.8.0
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#[lang = "drop_in_place"]pub unsafe fn drop_in_place<T>(to_drop: *mut T) where
T: ?Sized,
Executes the destructor (if any) of the pointed-to value.
This has two use cases:
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It is required to use
drop_in_place
to drop unsized types like trait objects, because they can't be read out onto the stack and dropped normally. -
It is friendlier to the optimizer to do this over
ptr::read
when dropping manually allocated memory (e.g. when writing Box/Rc/Vec), as the compiler doesn't need to prove that it's sound to elide the copy.
Safety
This has all the same safety problems as ptr::read
with respect to
invalid pointers, types, and double drops.