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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The model I am proposing here is by far not the first attempt at giving a defini
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 But before I delve into my latest proposal, I want to briefly discuss a key difference between my previous model and this one:
-"Types as Contracts" was a fully "validity"-based model, while "Stacked Borrows" is (to some extend) "access"-based.
+"Types as Contracts" was a fully "validity"-based model, while "Stacked Borrows" is (to some extent) "access"-based.
 
 ## 1 Validity-based vs. Access-based
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Shared references with interior mutability do not really have any restrictions i
 For every location in memory, we keep track of a stack of borrows (`Uniq(_)` or `Raw`), and potentially "top off" this stack by freezing the location.
 A frozen location is never written to, and no `Uniq` is pushed.
 
-Whenever a mutable reference is created, a matching `Uniq` is pushed onto the stack for every location "covered by" the reference -- i.e., the locations that would be accessed when the reference is used (starting at where it points to, and going on for `mem::size_of::<T>` many bytes).
+Whenever a mutable reference is created, a matching `Uniq` is pushed onto the stack for every location "covered by" the reference -- i.e., the locations that would be accessed when the reference is used (starting at where it points to, and going on for `size_of_val` many bytes).
 Whenever a shared reference is created, if there is no interior mutability, we freeze the locations if they are not already frozen.
 If there is interior mutability, we just push a `Raw`.
 Whenever a raw pointer is created from a mutable reference, we push a `Raw`.
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ In particular, notice that `x` and `y` in the first example have the same addres
 If we compared them as raw pointers, they would turn out equal.
 And yet, it makes a huge difference if we use `x` or `y`!
 
-If you read my previous post on [why pointers are complicated](2018-07-24-pointers-and-bytes), this should not come as too much of a surprise.
+If you read my previous post on [why pointers are complicated]({% post_url 2018-07-24-pointers-and-bytes %}), this should not come as too much of a surprise.
 There is more to a pointer, or a reference (I am using these terms mostly interchangeably), than the address in memory that it points to.
 
 For the purpose of this model, we assume that a value of reference type consists of two parts: An address in memory, and a tag used to store the time when the reference was created.
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ It is also needed to explain why we can put the [`noalias` parameter attribute](
 
 Consider the following code:
 {% highlight rust %}
-fn demo5(x: &mut i32, y: usize) -> i32 {
+fn demo5(x: &mut i32, y: usize) {
   *x = 42;
   foo(y);
 }