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Re:Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing by jeeyoungk on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:21PM (#14903066)
Unsafe allows you to dereference raw pointers and foreign-function calls, but you cannot go around the borrow checker, which is what's causing annoyance.

That said, you can create raw and dereference raw pointers, which lets you to do the above.

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Re:Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing by vvanders on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:24PM (#14903103)
If you take a ref into a pointer that lets you work around the borrow checker(and I've bitten myself just about every time I've done it now that I'm used to the borrow checker).
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Re:Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing by wuch on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:54PM (#14903417)
Using unsafe blocks and pointers can silence the borrow checker, but that doesn't mean that code is well defined. For example, using swap (mentioned in the article) with overlapping references would be undefined behaviour.
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