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Consider using UnsafeCell instead of [u8; 0] for forward declarations.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked Mozilla try revision and Bugzilla discussion for the rationale. Then locate rust-bindgen's forward-declaration generation logic and determine how the proposed UnsafeCell representation should replace the current form. No specific files or tests are named; done means the representation is updated without breaking generated bindings.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100