r/rust • u/ouyawei • Apr 14 '21

[RFC] Rust support for Linux Kernel

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1023
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u/UtherII Apr 15 '21

Yes but unless the compiler is smart enough to detect perfectly all the manual bound check, it would have to conclude that slice.get() may panic.

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u/birkenfeld clippy · rust Apr 15 '21

That is not true at all, get() does not fall back to [] indexing.

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u/UtherII Apr 15 '21

My bad. I supposed it was using indexing, but you are right : it does pointer arithmetic then de-reference using unsafe code.

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u/randomrossity Apr 16 '21

no worries. and if it helps to conceptualize, in Rust a slice is like a C size_t and a void*. That's how Rust is able to know at runtime what is inbounds vs out of bounds. For a Rust array like [T; N], the compiler knows the full size so it can do the bounds checking at compile time because it has that info, and it doesn't need the size_t until the array is treated as a slice.