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raw pointer

A pointer with no borrow checking: it may be null, dangling, or aliased.

*const T and *mut T are raw pointers; creating them is safe, dereferencing them requires unsafe and that they be valid, aligned, and not violate aliasing.

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Examples

  • let p = &raw const pot; needs no unsafe, but reading *p outside an unsafe block fails with E0133 (dereference of raw pointer).

See also

reference unsafe block dangling reference Miri
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