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…relude

Many, many projects use `size_of` to get the size of a type. However,
it's also often equally easy to hardcode a size (e.g. `8` instead of
`size_of::<u64>()`). Minimizing friction in the use of `size_of` helps
ensure that people use it and make code more self-documenting.

The name `size_of` is unambiguous: the name alone, without any prefix or
path, is self-explanatory and unmistakeable for any other functionality.
Adding it to the prelude cannot produce any name conflicts, as any local
definition will silently shadow the one from the prelude. Thus, we don't
need to wait for a new edition prelude to add it.

Add `size_of_val`, `align_of`, and `align_of_val` as well, with similar
justification: widely useful, self-explanatory, unmistakeable for
anything else, won't produce conflicts.
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joshtriplett committed May 13, 2024
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion crates/core_simd/src/simd/ptr/const_ptr.rs
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fn cast<U>(self) -> Self::CastPtr<U> {
// SimdElement currently requires zero-sized metadata, so this should never fail.
// If this ever changes, `simd_cast_ptr` should produce a post-mono error.
use core::{mem::size_of, ptr::Pointee};
use core::ptr::Pointee;
assert_eq!(size_of::<<T as Pointee>::Metadata>(), 0);
assert_eq!(size_of::<<U as Pointee>::Metadata>(), 0);

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion crates/core_simd/src/simd/ptr/mut_ptr.rs
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fn cast<U>(self) -> Self::CastPtr<U> {
// SimdElement currently requires zero-sized metadata, so this should never fail.
// If this ever changes, `simd_cast_ptr` should produce a post-mono error.
use core::{mem::size_of, ptr::Pointee};
use core::ptr::Pointee;
assert_eq!(size_of::<<T as Pointee>::Metadata>(), 0);
assert_eq!(size_of::<<U as Pointee>::Metadata>(), 0);

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