rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy

`indexing_slicing` ignores `match` for length

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Since Aug 3, 2026.

C-bug I-false-positive
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Description

Summary

lint ignores context of match slice.len(). Sister of #17398, reported one per lint.

Lint Name

indexing_slicing

Reproducer

I tried this code:

// supported: &[u8] is a function parameter, value from enum variant or provided in any other way
// to compile this code u8 can be replaced with anything implementing Display, or Debug (in that case add `:?` to format string)

match supported.len() {
    0 => {}
    1 => println!("{}", supported[0]),
    _ => println!("{} or {}", supported[0], supported[1]),
}

I saw this happen:

supported[0]
supported[0], supported[1]

indexing may panic

I expected to see this happen:
as `usize is not negative and value 0 was explicitly checked, lint should never fire.

Version
rustc 1.96.0 (ac68faa20 2026-05-25)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: ac68faa20c58cbccd01ee7208bf3b6e93a7d7f96
commit-date: 2026-05-25
host: aarch64-apple-darwin
release: 1.96.0
LLVM version: 22.1.2
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