bevy/crates/bevy_ptr
JoJoJet 629cfab135 Improve safety for CommandQueue internals (#7039)
# Objective

- Safety comments for the `CommandQueue` type are quite sparse and very imprecise. Sometimes, they are right for the wrong reasons or use circular reasoning.

## Solution

- Document previously-implicit safety invariants.
- Rewrite safety comments to actually reflect the specific invariants of each operation.
- Use `OwningPtr` instead of raw pointers, to encode an invariant in the type system instead of via comments.
- Use typed pointer methods when possible to increase reliability.

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## Changelog

+ Added the function `OwningPtr::read_unaligned`.
2023-01-19 03:04:39 +00:00
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src Improve safety for CommandQueue internals (#7039) 2023-01-19 03:04:39 +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.