Upstream Rust's libs-api team has consensus for stabilizing some of
`feature(new_uninit)`, but not for `Box<MaybeUninit<T>>::write`. Instead,
we can use `MaybeUninit<T>::write`, so Rust for Linux can drop the
feature after stabilization. That will happen after merging, as the FCP
has completed [1].
This is required before stabilization because remaining-unstable API
will be divided into new features. This code doesn't know about those
yet. It can't: they haven't landed, as the relevant PR is blocked on
rustc's CI testing Rust-for-Linux without this patch.
[ The PR has landed [2] and will be released in Rust 1.82.0 (expected on
2024-10-17), so we could conditionally enable the new unstable feature
(`box_uninit_write` [3]) instead, but just for a single `unsafe` block
it is probably not worth it. For the time being, I added it to the
"nice to have" section of our unstable features list. - Miguel ]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/63291#issuecomment-2183022955 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129416 [2]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/129397 [3]
Signed-off-by: Jubilee Young <workingjubilee@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
[ Reworded slightly. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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