Subteam reports 2016-04-08

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Lang

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We decided to accept the following RFCs this week:

  • RFC 1494: Amend RFC 550 with misc. follow set corrections
  • RFC 1444: Untagged unions
  • RFC 1513: Stabilize implementing panics as aborts
  • RFC 1398: Allocators, take III

We also placed the following RFCs into FCP:

  • RFC 1429: feature gate extern fn methods
  • RFC 1440: allow drop types in statics/constants
  • RFC 1399: add #[repr(pack = N)]

– nmatsakis

Libs

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This week marked the conclusion of the 1.9 release cycle final comment period (FCP). The libs team discussed the stabilization decisions for all issues, coming to the following conclusions:

  • FCP Issue #27719: Tracking issue for recover stabilization
    • Stabilize with the names catch_unwind, resume_unwind, AssertUnwindSafe, and UnwindSafe.
  • FCP Issue #27751: Tracking issue for raw stabilization
    • Deprecate the Slice type and the Repr trait
  • FCP Issue #27754: Tracking issue for str_char stabilization
    • Stabilize the is_char_boundary method, deprecate char_range_at, char_range_at_reverse, char_at, char_at_reverse, and slice_shift_char.
  • FCP Issue #27780: Tracking issue for <*mut T, *const T>::{as_ref, as_mut_ref}
    • Stabilize both methods with by-value self instead of by-reference
  • FCP Issue #27784: Tracking issue for char encoding methods
    • Postpone stabilization of encode_utf8 pending investigation into the performance of the two methods.
  • FCP Issue #27809: Tracking issue for make_ascii_{upper,lower}case
    • Stabilize both methods as-is
  • FCP Issue #27811: Tracking issue for CommandExt::session_leader
    • Deprecate in favor of CommandExt::befor_exec
  • FCP Issue #27830: Tracking issue for UTF-16 decoding iterators
    • Stabilize functions as-is with a tweak to the error type in the iterator.
  • FCP Issue #28050: Set recovery methods
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #29453: Add Capacity/length methods for OsString
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #29791: Tracking issue for getting pthread_t from JoinHandle
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #29935: Tracking issue for #[deprecated]
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #30014: Tracking issue for OpenOptions expansion
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #30752: Tracking issue for panic::propagate
    • Stabilize with the name resume_unwind
  • FCP Issue #31262: HashMap and HashSet should provide a getter for their hashers
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #31398: Tracking issue for CommandExt::{exec, before_exec}
    • Stabilize the exec function
  • FCP Issue #31405: Tracking issue for file_try_clone
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #31572: Tracking issue for SocketAddr setters
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #31755: Tracking issue for <[T]>::copy_from_slice
    • Stabilize as-is
  • FCP Issue #31756: Tracking issue for ptr::{read,write}_volatile
    • Stabilize as-is

More information about the relevant decision can be found on the issue and final comment as well. Stabilizations have all been applied in rust-lang/rust#32804

Tools

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  • rustup, the successor to multirust, is now available for beta testing. Please feel free to leave feedback on the internals thread!

  • Nightlies for the i586-pc-windows-msvc target are now being produced.

  • Nightly for the aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu target are now being produced.

  • Top level overrides in Cargo have landed, allowing you to specify package overrides in Cargo.toml to work with other collaborators.

  • The following RFCs have been moved into their final comment period to be decided upon ~2 weeks from now:

    • RFC 1510 - Adding a new rdylib crate type. Note that we are specifically interested in hearing about dylib use cases today to see if changing its definition will cause breakage.
    • RFC 1525 - Adding workspaces to Cargo
    • RFC 1535 - Stabilizing -C overflow-checks as a flag

Compiler

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Quiet week.

– nmatsakis

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