Fix Miri errors for WindowsIter and ExactChunksIter/Mut #1142
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Before this PR, running
MIRIFLAGS="-Zmiri-tag-raw-pointers" cargo miri test
caused Miri to report undefined behavior for code using theWindowsIter
,ExactChunksIter
, andExactChunksIterMut
iterators. This PR fixes the underlying issue. Basically, Miri doesn't like code which uses a reference to an element to access other elements. Before this PR, these iterators wrapped theElementsBase
andElementsBaseMut
iterators, and they created views from the references returned by those inner iterators. Accessing elements within those views (other than the first element) led to the Miri error, since the view's pointer was derived from a reference to a single element. Now, the iterators wrapBaseiter
instead, which produces raw pointers instead of references.Although not necessary to satisfy Miri, this PR also changes the
Windows
,ExactChunks
, andExactChunksMut
producers to wrap raw views instead of normal views. This avoids potential confusion regarding which elements are accessible through the views produced by these producers.With this PR, #1138, and bluss/matrixmultiply#67,
MIRIFLAGS="-Zmiri-tag-raw-pointers -Zmiri-check-number-validity" RUSTFLAGS="-Zrandomize-layout" cargo +nightly miri test
runs without errors (in about 8 minutes on my machine).