Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: add Aliased type

[Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:18:33PM +0100, Christian Schrefl wrote:
> On 23.01.25 7:25 PM, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 07:04:40PM +0100, Christian Schrefl wrote:
> >> Hi Boqun
> >>
> >> On 23.01.25 6:56 PM, Boqun Feng wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 11:21:23AM +0100, Christian Schrefl wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>>>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/Z407egxOy7oNLpq8@boqun-archlinux/
> >>>>> [2]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3467-unsafe-pinned.html#naming
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't particularly care about the name, I mostly used aliased, because that's
> >>>> the name that Alice originally used.
> >>>>
> >>>> `(Always)Shared` seems confusing to me.
> >>>>
> >>>> I guess we can use `UnsafePinned`, but most people won't know what that means,
> >>>
> >>> Hmm.. but doesn't `Aliased` have the same effect, i.e. most people won't
> >>> know what that means? Moreover, people who already knows `UnsafePinned`
> >>> will still take some time to realize "`Aliased` is actually
> >>> `UnsafePinned`
> >>
> >> I guess I'll name it `UnsafePinned` then.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> also I'm not sure if it's a good Idea to use the same name as a (future) 
> >>>> language type.
> >>>
> >>> The benefit is that we won't re-invent the wheel since `UnsafePinned`
> >>> already does what `Aliased` does here. If we don't have a good name, we
> >>> should use the one that most people are already using. Honestly, at this
> >>> point, I think we should just use the unstable feature unsafe_pinned.
> >>
> >> I think that's not implemented in rustc yet.
> >> At least no implementation is linked in the tracking issue:
> >> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/125735
> >>
> >> Once that's implemented we can use a `cfg` to disable this 
> >> implementation on new versions that provide it.
> >> (Assuming we use the same API)
> >>
> > 
> > Sounds good to me, thanks!
> 
> From reading the RFC It seems that `UnsafePinned<T>` should contain a `T`
> directly instead of `UnsafeCell<T>` so I should probably also change my 
> version it to match.
> 

Per

	https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/125735#issuecomment-2299183374

, I think you still want to use `UnsafeCell<T>`.

Regards,
Boqun

> Cheers
> Christian
>