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Commonly, code using unions will provide safe wrappers around unsafe union
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field accesses.
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+ ## Unions and ` Drop `
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+ When a union is dropped, it cannot know which of its fields needs to be dropped.
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+ For this reason, all union fields must either be of a ` Copy ` type or of the
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+ shape ` ManuallyDrop<_> ` . This ensures that a union does not need to drop
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+ anything when it goes out of scope.
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+ Like for structs and enums, it is possible to ` impl Drop ` for a union to
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+ manually define what happens when it gets dropped.
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## Pattern matching on unions
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Another way to access union fields is to use pattern matching. Pattern matching
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Unions have no notion of an "active field". Instead, every union access
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transmutes parts of the content of the union to the type of the accessed
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field. Since transmutes can cause unexpected or undefined behaviour, ` unsafe ` is
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- required to read from a union field or to write to a field that doesn't
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+ required to read from a union field, or to write to a field that doesn't
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implement [ ` Copy ` ] . See the [ item] documentation for further details.
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The memory layout of a ` union ` is undefined by default, but the ` #[repr(...)] `
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