rust-clippy/clippy_lints
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needless_borrows_for_generic_args: Fix for &mut
This commit fixes a bug introduced in #12706, where the behavior of the
lint has been changed, to avoid suggestions that introduce a move. The
motivation in the commit message is quite poor (if the detection for
significant drops is not sufficient because it's not transitive, the
proper fix would be to make it transitive). However, #12454, the linked
issue, provides a good reason for the change — if the value being
borrowed is bound to a variable, then moving it will only introduce
friction into future refactorings.

Thus #12706 changes the logic so that the lint triggers if the value
being borrowed is Copy, or is the result of a function call, simplifying
the logic to the point where analysing "is this the only use of this
value" isn't necessary.

However, said PR also introduces an undocumented carveout, where
referents that themselves are mutable references are treated as Copy,
to catch some cases that we do want to lint against. However, that is
not sound — it's possible to consume a mutable reference by moving it.

To avoid emitting false suggestions, this PR reintroduces the
referent_used_exactly_once logic and runs that check for referents that
are themselves mutable references.

Thinking about the code shape of &mut x, where x: &mut T, raises the
point that while removing the &mut outright won't work, the extra
indirection is still undesirable, and perhaps instead we should suggest
reborrowing: &mut *x. That, however, is left as possible future work.

Fixes #12856
2024-06-06 17:04:12 +02:00
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src needless_borrows_for_generic_args: Fix for &mut 2024-06-06 17:04:12 +02:00
Cargo.toml Merge commit '20b085d500dfba5afe0869707bf357af3afe20be' into clippy-subtree-update 2024-05-02 17:26:44 +02:00
README.md clippy_lints: readme: don't mention crates.io since it is no longer used to publish clippy. 2020-03-10 01:05:54 +01:00

This crate contains Clippy lints. For the main crate, check GitHub.