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Document safety of Path casting
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src/libstd/path.rs

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// See note at the top of this module to understand why these are used:
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// These casts are safe as OsStr is internally a wrapper around [u8] on all
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// platforms.
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//
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// Note that currently this relies on the special knowledge that libstd has;
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// these types are single-element structs but are not marked repr(transparent)
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// or repr(C) which would make these casts allowable outside std.
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fn os_str_as_u8_slice(s: &OsStr) -> &[u8] {
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unsafe { &*(s as *const OsStr as *const [u8]) }
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}

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