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What you’ve just linked to is a solution to the issue mentioned above. Rust makes a lot of guarantees, but sometimes those guarantees run afoul of certain required operations in different contexts. For this reason the language has an escape valve, unsafe, and the unsafe blocks are blindingly obvious in the code.

To say it’s a problem is misleading at best.



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