X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/web.git/blobdiff_plain/76b258de25b132467ff60ba4fc26be948aed1471..43307ef533738f9b108a6daa91541692f396a725:/personal/_posts/2019-07-14-uninit.md?ds=inline diff --git a/personal/_posts/2019-07-14-uninit.md b/personal/_posts/2019-07-14-uninit.md index 7af373f..bbb1468 100644 --- a/personal/_posts/2019-07-14-uninit.md +++ b/personal/_posts/2019-07-14-uninit.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: '"What The Hardware Does" is not What Your Program Does: Uninitialized Memory' -categories: rust research +categories: rust research programming forum: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/what-the-hardware-does-is-not-what-your-program-does-uninitialized-memory/10561 --- @@ -40,14 +40,16 @@ fn always_returns_true(x: u8) -> bool { } fn main() { - let x: u8 = unsafe { mem::uninitialized() }; + let x: u8 = unsafe { mem::MaybeUninit::uninit().assume_init() }; assert!(always_returns_true(x)); } {% endhighlight %} +**Update (2022-11-17):** Switched to `MaybeUninit` to keep the example working in newer versions of Rust. + `always_returns_true` is a function that, clearly, will return `true` for any possible 8-bit unsigned integer. After all, *every* possible value for `x` will be either less than 120, equal to 120, or bigger than 120. A quick loop [confirms this](https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edition=2018&gist=65b690fa3c1691e11d4d45955358cdbe). -However, if you [run the example](https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edition=2018&gist=812fe3c8655bfedcea37bb18bb70a945), you can see the assertion fail.[^godbolt] +However, if you [run the example](https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edition=2018&gist=c17d299cacd626c572def0c4262aed69), you can see the assertion fail.[^godbolt] [^godbolt]: In case this changes with future Rust versions, [here is the same example on godbolt](https://godbolt.org/z/9G67hP); the `xor eax, eax` indicates that the function returns 0, aka `false`. And [here is a version for C++](https://godbolt.org/z/TWrvcq).