Tracking issue for the cast method of raw pointers

#60601 adds:

impl<T: ?Sized> *mut T {
    /// Cast to a pointer to a different type
    #[inline]
    pub const fn cast<U>(self) -> *mut U {
        self as _
    }
}

impl<T: ?Sized> *const T {
    /// Cast to a pointer to a different type
    #[inline]
    pub const fn cast<U>(self) -> *const U {
        self as _
    }
}

Like with NonNull::cast, the input pointed type does not need to be Sized but the output pointed type does, because we wouldn’t know what appropriate pointer metadata (slice length, trait object vtable, …) to insert. The actual requirement is that the pointer is thin, but Sized is the closest approximation we have (until we add something like T: ptr::Pointee<Metadata=()>).

@rfcbot

Let’s?

@rfcbot fcp merge

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🔔 This is now entering its final comment period, as per the review above. 🔔

The final comment period, with a disposition to merge, as per the review above, is now complete.

As the automated representative of the governance process, I would like to thank the author for their work and everyone else who contributed.

The RFC will be merged soon.

Stabilize <*mut _>::cast and <*const _>::cast

Rollup merge of rust-lang#62713 - SimonSapin:cast, r=Centril

Getting this issue when executing:
cargo install cargo-generate

More detail:

   Compiling backtrace v0.3.44
error[E0658]: use of unstable library feature 'ptr_cast'
   --> C:\Users\jack_\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\backtrace-0.3.44\src\backtrace\dbghelp.rs:110:74
    |
110 |                 RtlLookupFunctionEntry(addr, &mut base, ptr::null_mut()).cast()
    |                                                                          ^^^^
    |
    = note: for more information, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/60602

error: aborting due to previous error

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0658`.
error: Could not compile `backtrace`.
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: failed to compile `cargo-generate v0.5.0`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `C:\Users\jack_\AppData\Local\Temp\cargo-installM3JL39`

Caused by:
  build failed

Your Rust installation is out of date.

Makefile: do not compile rust/download_web with old toolchain, again

Raise minimum tested toolchain to rust 1.38

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SimonSapin commented on Jul 3, 2019

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