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r: 31156
b: refs/heads/dist-snap
c: 6e98416
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

Author: pcwalton

[refs]

@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ refs/tags/release-0.1: 1f5c5126e96c79d22cb7862f75304136e204f105
 refs/heads/ndm: f3868061cd7988080c30d6d5bf352a5a5fe2460b
 refs/heads/try2: d0c6ce338884ee21843f4b40bf6bf18d222ce5df
 refs/heads/incoming: d9317a174e434d4c99fc1a37fd7dc0d2f5328d37
-refs/heads/dist-snap: 81ecd272d349a744a3a5f21b7eb4ef3c79d9188f
+refs/heads/dist-snap: 6e9841666285f0d928f35906a903d4a1e2aa6ffe
 refs/tags/release-0.2: c870d2dffb391e14efb05aa27898f1f6333a9596
 refs/tags/release-0.3: b5f0d0f648d9a6153664837026ba1be43d3e2503

branches/dist-snap/src/libcore/vec.rs

@@ -1420,6 +1420,11 @@ mod unsafe {
         data: u8
     };
 
+    type slice_repr = {
+        mut data: *u8,
+        mut len: uint
+    };
+
     /**
      * Constructs a vector from an unsafe pointer to a buffer
      *
@@ -1465,6 +1470,13 @@ mod unsafe {
     }
 
 
+    #[inline(always)]
+    unsafe fn to_ptr_slice<T>(v: &[const T]) -> *T {
+        let repr: **slice_repr = ::unsafe::reinterpret_cast(addr_of(v));
+        ret ::unsafe::reinterpret_cast(addr_of((**repr).data));
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Form a slice from a pointer and length (as a number of units,
      * not bytes).