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7 changes: 3 additions & 4 deletions src/doc/trpl/raw-pointers.md
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Expand Up @@ -98,16 +98,15 @@ these properties are true for any references, no matter how they are created,
and so any conversion from raw pointers is asserting that they hold. The
programmer *must* guarantee this.

The recommended method for the conversion is
The recommended method for the conversion is:

```rust
let i: u32 = 1;

// explicit cast
let i: u32 = 1;
let p_imm: *const u32 = &i as *const u32;
let mut m: u32 = 2;

// implicit coercion
let mut m: u32 = 2;
let p_mut: *mut u32 = &mut m;

unsafe {
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