Consolidate raw representations of rust values #7986
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This moves the raw struct layout of closures, vectors, boxes, and strings into a
new
unstable::raw
module. This is meant to be a centralized location to findinformation for the layout of these values.
As safe method,
unwrap
, is provided to convert a rust value to its rawrepresentation. Unsafe methods to convert back are not provided because they are
rarely used and too numerous to write an implementation for each (not much of a
common pattern).
This is progress on #6790. I tried to get a nice interface for a trait to implement in the raw module, but I was unable to come up with one. The hard part is that there are so many different directions to go from one way to another that it's difficult to find a pattern to follow to implement a trait with. Someone else might have some better luck though.