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Auto merge of #130540 - veera-sivarajan:fix-87525, r=estebank
Add a Lint for Pointer to Integer Transmutes in Consts
Fixes #87525
This PR adds a MirLint for pointer to integer transmutes in const functions and associated consts. The implementation closely follows this comment: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/85769#issuecomment-880969112. More details about the implementation can be found in the comments.
Note: This could break some sound code as mentioned by RalfJung in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/85769#issuecomment-886491680:
> ... technically const-code could transmute/cast an int to a ptr and then transmute it back and that would be correct -- so the lint will deny some sound code. Does not seem terribly likely though.
References:
1. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.transmute.html
2. https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/associated-items.html#associated-constants