rust-lang / rust-lang/rust

relaxed `?Sized` bound getting implied by super trait warn

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Description

the following code should lint that the ?Sized bound is unused:'

trait Proj {
    type Assoc: Clone + ?Sized;
}

fn foo<T: ?Sized + Clone>() {}

we imply Sized as it's a super trait of Clone, so the ?Sized bound does not do anything.

cc @davidtwco, related to sized_hierarchy migration stuff

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