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Clarify str::from_utf8_unchecked's invariants
Specifically, make it clear that it is immediately UB to pass ill-formed UTF-8 into the function. The previous wording left space to interpret that the UB only occurred when calling another function, which "assumes that `&str`s are valid UTF-8." This does not change whether str being UTF-8 is a safety or a validity invariant. (As per previous discussion, it is a safety invariant, not a validity invariant.) It just makes it clear that valid UTF-8 is a precondition of str::from_utf8_unchecked, and that emitting an Abstract Machine fault (e.g. UB or a sanitizer error) on invalid UTF-8 is a valid thing to do. If user code wants to create an unsafe `&str` pointing to ill-formed UTF-8, it must be done via transmutes. Also, just, don't.
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