bevy/crates/bevy_ptr
JoJoJet 3ac06b57e9 Respect alignment for zero-sized types stored in the world (#6618)
# Objective

Fixes #6615.

`BlobVec` does not respect alignment for zero-sized types, which results in UB whenever a ZST with alignment other than 1 is used in the world.

## Solution

Add the fn `bevy_ptr::dangling_with_align`.

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## Changelog

+ Added the function `dangling_with_align` to `bevy_ptr`, which creates a well-aligned dangling pointer to a type whose alignment is not known at compile time.
2022-11-14 21:16:53 +00:00
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src Respect alignment for zero-sized types stored in the world (#6618) 2022-11-14 21:16:53 +00:00
Cargo.toml Release 0.9.0 (#6568) 2022-11-12 20:01:29 +00:00
README.md bevy_ptr standalone crate (#4653) 2022-05-04 19:16:10 +00:00

bevy_ptr

The bevy_ptr crate provides low-level abstractions for working with pointers in a more safe way than using rust's raw pointers.

Rust has lifetimed and typed references (&'a T), unlifetimed and typed references (*const T), but no lifetimed but untyped references. bevy_ptr adds them, called Ptr<'a>, PtrMut<'a> and OwningPtr<'a>. These types are lifetime-checked so can never lead to problems like use-after-frees and must always point to valid data.