Fix UB in pop/push under Stacked Borrows #16
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cargo miri test
reports thatVec32::pop
andVec32::push
have UB under the Stacked Borrows model.The UB occurs when a pointer is used to read/write out-of-bounds of the slice it was created from. This slice is conjured by auto-deref of
self
in both implementations.mediumvec/src/vec32.rs
Lines 113 to 114 in 398db61
mediumvec/src/vec32.rs
Lines 101 to 103 in 398db61
In other words, we are dealing with a variant of rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines#134
This PR silences miri by explicitly going through pointers so that we don't accidentally retag and reduce the provenance.