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Auto merge of rust-lang#110496 - WaffleLapkin:🏳️⚧️sound, r=compiler-…
…errors Don't transmute `&List<GenericArg>` <-> `&List<Ty>` In rust-lang#93505 we allowed safely transmuting between `&List<GenericArg<'_>>` and `&List<Ty<'_>>`. This was possible because `GenericArg` is a tagged pointer and the tag for types is `0b00`, such that a `GenericArg` with a type inside has the same layout as `Ty`. While this was meant as an optimization, it doesn't look like it was actually any perf or max-rss win (see rust-lang#94799 (comment), rust-lang#94841, rust-lang#110496 (comment)). Additionally the way it was done is quite fragile — `unsafe` code was not properly documented or contained in a module, types were not marked as `repr(C)` (making the transmutes possibly unsound). All of this makes the code maintenance harder and blocks other possible optimizations (as an example I've found out about these `transmutes` when my change caused them to sigsegv compiler). Thus, I think we can safely (pun intended) remove those transmutes, making maintenance easier, optimizations possible, code less cursed, etc. r? `@compiler-errors`
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