Clarify that atomic and regular integers can differ in alignment #120823
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The documentation for atomic integers says that they have the "same in-memory representation" as their underlying integers. This might be misconstrued as implying that they have the same layout. Therefore, clarify that atomic integers' alignment is equal to their size.
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…gn, r=RalfJung Clarify that atomic and regular integers can differ in alignment The documentation for atomic integers says that they have the "same in-memory representation" as their underlying integers. This might be misconstrued as implying that they have the same layout. Therefore, clarify that atomic integers' alignment is equal to their size.
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…gn, r=RalfJung Clarify that atomic and regular integers can differ in alignment The documentation for atomic integers says that they have the "same in-memory representation" as their underlying integers. This might be misconstrued as implying that they have the same layout. Therefore, clarify that atomic integers' alignment is equal to their size.
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…iaskrgr Rollup of 8 pull requests Successful merges: - rust-lang#117614 (static mut: allow mutable reference to arbitrary types, not just slices and arrays) - rust-lang#120588 (wasm: Store rlib metadata in wasm object files) - rust-lang#120719 (Remove support for `associated_type_bound` nested in `dyn` types) - rust-lang#120823 (Clarify that atomic and regular integers can differ in alignment) - rust-lang#120859 (Loosen an assertion to account for stashed errors.) - rust-lang#120865 (Turn the "no saved object file in work product" ICE into a translatable fatal error) - rust-lang#120866 (Remove unnecessary `#![feature(min_specialization)]`) - rust-lang#120870 (Allow restricted trait impls under `#[allow_internal_unstable(min_specialization)]`) r? `@ghost` `@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
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…iaskrgr Rollup of 8 pull requests Successful merges: - rust-lang#117614 (static mut: allow mutable reference to arbitrary types, not just slices and arrays) - rust-lang#120719 (Remove support for `associated_type_bound` nested in `dyn` types) - rust-lang#120764 (Add documentation on `str::starts_with`) - rust-lang#120823 (Clarify that atomic and regular integers can differ in alignment) - rust-lang#120859 (Loosen an assertion to account for stashed errors.) - rust-lang#120865 (Turn the "no saved object file in work product" ICE into a translatable fatal error) - rust-lang#120866 (Remove unnecessary `#![feature(min_specialization)]`) - rust-lang#120870 (Allow restricted trait impls under `#[allow_internal_unstable(min_specialization)]`) r? `@ghost` `@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#120823 - LegionMammal978:clarify-atomic-align, r=RalfJung Clarify that atomic and regular integers can differ in alignment The documentation for atomic integers says that they have the "same in-memory representation" as their underlying integers. This might be misconstrued as implying that they have the same layout. Therefore, clarify that atomic integers' alignment is equal to their size.
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The documentation for atomic integers says that they have the "same in-memory representation" as their underlying integers. This might be misconstrued as implying that they have the same layout. Therefore, clarify that atomic integers' alignment is equal to their size.