Document pointer cast semantics

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reading issue #13 and the project's unsafe guidelines and memory-model decisions, which the issue identifies as prerequisites for defining pointer-cast semantics. Done means documenting a complete set of pointer-cast semantics, or the statements that can be made once those rules are established.

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#13 documents which casts are possible, as well as the semantics of the casts that don't involve pointers. For pointers it's not clear if a complete set of semantics can be given until the unsafe guidelines/memory model are determined, but maybe some statements can be made.

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