Rollup merge of #40333 - tbu-:pr_doc_ptr_write, r=alexcrichton

Clarify handling of `src` in `ptr::write`

Fixes #39733.
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Ariel Ben-Yehuda 2017-03-08 20:54:08 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -191,6 +191,10 @@ pub unsafe fn read_unaligned<T>(src: *const T) -> T {
/// allocations or resources, so care must be taken not to overwrite an object
/// that should be dropped.
///
/// It does not immediately drop the contents of `src` either; it is rather
/// *moved* into the memory location `dst` and will be dropped whenever that
/// location goes out of scope.
///
/// This is appropriate for initializing uninitialized memory, or overwriting
/// memory that has previously been `read` from.
///