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yaml
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r: 30900
b: refs/heads/incoming
c: affa388
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

Author: brson

[refs]

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ refs/heads/try: d324a424d8f84b1eb049b12cf34182bda91b0024
 refs/tags/release-0.1: 1f5c5126e96c79d22cb7862f75304136e204f105
 refs/heads/ndm: f3868061cd7988080c30d6d5bf352a5a5fe2460b
 refs/heads/try2: d0c6ce338884ee21843f4b40bf6bf18d222ce5df
-refs/heads/incoming: 6bb0399df2123a2a87262b0f36ba0e56f1de787b
+refs/heads/incoming: affa3880debc91adde71e78345c30ce2044f8cef
 refs/heads/dist-snap: 2f32a1581f522e524009138b33b1c7049ced668d
 refs/tags/release-0.2: c870d2dffb391e14efb05aa27898f1f6333a9596
 refs/tags/release-0.3: b5f0d0f648d9a6153664837026ba1be43d3e2503

branches/incoming/src/libcore/task/spawn.rs

@@ -511,15 +511,8 @@ fn spawn_raw(+opts: TaskOpts, +f: fn~()) {
 
             let child_wrapper = make_child_wrapper(new_task, move child_tg,
                   move ancestors, is_main, move notify_chan, move f);
-            /*
-            Truly awful, but otherwise the borrow checker complains about
-            the move in the last line of this block, for reasons I can't
-            understand. -- tjc
-            */
-            let tmp: u64 = cast::reinterpret_cast(&(&child_wrapper));
-            let whatever: &~fn() = cast::reinterpret_cast(&tmp);
-            let fptr = ptr::p2::addr_of(whatever);
-            let closure: *rust_closure = cast::reinterpret_cast(&fptr);
+
+            let closure = cast::transmute(&child_wrapper);
 
             // Getting killed between these two calls would free the child's
             // closure. (Reordering them wouldn't help - then getting killed