Support dynamically sized types #452
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It supersedes #209 for supporting dynamically sized types (DST) in Crossbeam. It's much cleaner and less intrusive than the previous attempts in that it doesn't introduce another
Atomictype.Atomic<T>is still there without significant changes.The key idea is (1) instead of requiring the condition on
T: Sized, (2) requiringT: Pointablethat means an object of typeTcan be pointed to by a single word. For instance,Atomicbecomes:pub struct Atomic<T: ?Sized + Pointable> { ... }.It is breaking the backward compatibility in that it
(1) increases the minimum required Rust version to 1.36 (fornowMaybeUninit) and (2)const fn Atomic::null()is Nightly only.