file.
Previously multibyte UTF-8 chars were being recorded as byte offsets
from the start of the file, and then later compared against global byte
positions, resulting in the compiler possibly thinking it had a byte
position pointing inside a multibyte character, if there were multibyte
characters in any non-crate files. (Although, sometimes the byte offsets
line up just right to not ICE, but that was a coincidence.)
Fixes#11136.
Fixes#11178.
The transmute was unsound.
There are many instances of .unwrap_or('\x00') for "ignoring" EOF which
either do not make the situation worse than it was (well, actually make
it better, since it's easy to grep for places that don't handle EOF) or
can never ever be read.
Fixes#8971.
Specifically, dissallow setting the number base for every type of float
literal, not only those that contain the decimal point. This is in line with
the description in the manual.
The `print!` and `println!` macros are now the preferred method of printing, and so there is no reason to export the `stdio` functions in the prelude. The functions have also been replaced by their macro counterparts in the tutorial and other documentation so that newcomers don't get confused about what they should be using.
Previously, `//// foo` and `/*** foo ***/` were accepted as doc comments. This
changes that, so that only `/// foo` and `/** foo ***/` are accepted. This
confuses many newcomers and it seems weird.
Also update the manual for these changes, and modernify the EBNF for comments.
Closes#10638
Raw string literals are lexed into regular string literals. This is okay
for them to "work" and be usable/testable, but the pretty-printer does
not know about them yet and will just emit regular string literals.
It is simply defined as `f64` across every platform right now.
A use case hasn't been presented for a `float` type defined as the
highest precision floating point type implemented in hardware on the
platform. Performance-wise, using the smallest precision correct for the
use case greatly saves on cache space and allows for fitting more
numbers into SSE/AVX registers.
If there was a use case, this could be implemented as simply a type
alias or a struct thanks to `#[cfg(...)]`.
Closes#6592
The mailing list thread, for reference:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-July/004632.html
As documented in issue #7945, these literal identifiers are all accepted by rust
today, but they should probably be disallowed (especially `'''`). This changes
all escapable sequences to being *required* to be escaped.
Closes#7945
Huon Wilson