Tracking Issue for box_as_ptr

[RalfJung]

Feature gate: #![feature(box_as_ptr)]

This is a tracking issue for Box::as_ptr and Box::as_mut_ptr.

Public API

impl<T: ?Sized, A: Allocator> Box<T, A> {
    pub fn as_mut_ptr(b: &mut Self) -> *mut T;
    pub fn as_ptr(b: &Self) -> *const T;
}

Steps / History

• ACP: Add "as raw pointer" methods to Box libs-team#355
• Implementation: add Box::as_ptr and Box::as_mut_ptr methods #129091
• Final comment period (FCP)¹
• Stabilization PR

Unresolved Questions

• None yet.

Footnotes

1. https://std-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/feature-lifecycle/stabilization.html ↩