rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-bindgen
Emit #[doc(alias)] for renamed items
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Description
The Rust 1.48 announcement suggests the use of the new #[doc(alias)] for FFI crates. This seems like a reasonable thing for bindgen to do if an item gets renamed.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating bindgen's item-renaming and Rust attribute-generation paths, then inspect existing tests for renamed items; done means renamed items consistently receive the corresponding #[doc(alias)] metadata.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100