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r: 22494
b: refs/heads/master
c: 6e98416
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

Author: pcwalton

[refs]

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 81ecd272d349a744a3a5f21b7eb4ef3c79d9188f
+refs/heads/master: 6e9841666285f0d928f35906a903d4a1e2aa6ffe
 refs/heads/snap-stage1: e33de59e47c5076a89eadeb38f4934f58a3618a6
 refs/heads/snap-stage3: cd6f24f9d14ac90d167386a56e7a6ac1f0318195
 refs/heads/try: ffbe0e0e00374358b789b0037bcb3a577cd218be

trunk/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).