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@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ use rustc::{declare_tool_lint, lint_array};
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/// `Drop::drop`, and that function is by fiat not callable in user code.
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/// So there is really no use case for using `Drop` in trait bounds.
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///
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/// The most likely use case of a drop bound is to distinguish between types
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/// that have destructors and types that don't. Combined with specialization,
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/// a naive coder would write an implementation that assumed a type could be
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/// trivially dropped, then write a specialization for `T: Drop` that actually
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/// calls the destructor. Except that doing so is not correct; String, for
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/// example, doesn't actually implement Drop, but because String contains a
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/// Vec, assuming it can be trivially dropped will leak memory.
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///
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/// **Known problems:** None.
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///
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/// **Example:**
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