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zero-sized type

A type whose values take 0 bytes, like a unit struct.

A zero-sized type has size_of 0 (for example struct Marker;); it exists for the type checker only.

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Examples

  • struct Draft; has size_of::<Draft>() equal to 0, and so does ().

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