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Description
Indexing into a slice relies on ptr::offset
, which says that its UB to use an offset/index larger than isize::MAX
. As documented by ptr::offset
, "memory acquired directly from allocators or memory mapped files may be too large to handle with this function." Does that mean that e.g. memory mapping a file larger than isize::MAX
into a slice is unsound, because safe code can cause UB just by indexing into it? Should the from_raw_parts
docs tell callers that they need to check this?