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Re:Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging by Zoh0eich on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:00AM (#18910269)
Specialized data structures can be built that contain primitives and other types supporting this kind of thing. But you still can't store arbitrary data because they could contain FFI pointers, handles to native resources, things that need to run destructors etc.

So to do this safely all the types must be whitelisted through a custom trait. Copy is close, but not quite, since references are still Copy.

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