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Tracking Issue for offset_of_slice

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B-experimental B-unstable C-tracking-issue F-offset_of_slice S-tracking-needs-to-bake T-lang T-libs
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Description

The feature gate for the issue is #![feature(offset_of_slice)].

This is a tracking issue for allowing offset_of to determine the offset of unsized fields whose tail is a slice, and hence their alignment and their offset is statically known.

Steps
Implementation history

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Read the tracking issue, implementation PR #126150, and stabilization PR #139673 first. The checklist shows implementation, documentation, formatting, and stabilization are complete, so confirm the feature's status in those referenced changes; there is no remaining newcomer-sized task identified in the issue.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
10/100

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