bytemuck/
lib.rs

1#![no_std]
2#![warn(missing_docs)]
3#![allow(unused_mut)]
4#![allow(clippy::match_like_matches_macro)]
5#![allow(clippy::uninlined_format_args)]
6#![allow(clippy::result_unit_err)]
7#![allow(clippy::type_complexity)]
8#![cfg_attr(feature = "nightly_docs", feature(doc_cfg))]
9#![cfg_attr(feature = "nightly_portable_simd", feature(portable_simd))]
10#![cfg_attr(feature = "nightly_float", feature(f16, f128))]
11#![cfg_attr(
12  all(
13    feature = "nightly_stdsimd",
14    any(target_arch = "x86_64", target_arch = "x86")
15  ),
16  feature(stdarch_x86_avx512)
17)]
18
19//! This crate gives small utilities for casting between plain data types.
20//!
21//! ## Basics
22//!
23//! Data comes in five basic forms in Rust, so we have five basic casting
24//! functions:
25//!
26//! * `T` uses [`cast`]
27//! * `&T` uses [`cast_ref`]
28//! * `&mut T` uses [`cast_mut`]
29//! * `&[T]` uses [`cast_slice`]
30//! * `&mut [T]` uses [`cast_slice_mut`]
31//!
32//! Depending on the function, the [`NoUninit`] and/or [`AnyBitPattern`] traits
33//! are used to maintain memory safety.
34//!
35//! **Historical Note:** When the crate first started the [`Pod`] trait was used
36//! instead, and so you may hear people refer to that, but it has the strongest
37//! requirements and people eventually wanted the more fine-grained system, so
38//! here we are. All types that impl `Pod` have a blanket impl to also support
39//! `NoUninit` and `AnyBitPattern`. The traits unfortunately do not have a
40//! perfectly clean hierarchy for semver reasons.
41//!
42//! ## Failures
43//!
44//! Some casts will never fail, and other casts might fail.
45//!
46//! * `cast::<u32, f32>` always works (and [`f32::from_bits`]).
47//! * `cast_ref::<[u8; 4], u32>` might fail if the specific array reference
48//!   given at runtime doesn't have alignment 4.
49//!
50//! In addition to the "normal" forms of each function, which will panic on
51//! invalid input, there's also `try_` versions which will return a `Result`.
52//!
53//! If you would like to statically ensure that a cast will work at runtime you
54//! can use the `must_cast` crate feature and the `must_` casting functions. A
55//! "must cast" that can't be statically known to be valid will cause a
56//! compilation error (and sometimes a very hard to read compilation error).
57//!
58//! ## Using Your Own Types
59//!
60//! All the functions listed above are guarded by the [`Pod`] trait, which is a
61//! sub-trait of the [`Zeroable`] trait.
62//!
63//! If you enable the crate's `derive` feature then these traits can be derived
64//! on your own types. The derive macros will perform the necessary checks on
65//! your type declaration, and trigger an error if your type does not qualify.
66//!
67//! The derive macros might not cover all edge cases, and sometimes they will
68//! error when actually everything is fine. As a last resort you can impl these
69//! traits manually. However, these traits are `unsafe`, and you should
70//! carefully read the requirements before using a manual implementation.
71//!
72//! ## Cargo Features
73//!
74//! The crate supports Rust 1.34 when no features are enabled, and so there's
75//! cargo features for thing that you might consider "obvious".
76//!
77//! The cargo features **do not** promise any particular MSRV, and they may
78//! increase their MSRV in new versions.
79//!
80//! * `derive`: Provide derive macros for the various traits.
81//! * `extern_crate_alloc`: Provide utilities for `alloc` related types such as
82//!   Box and Vec.
83//! * `zeroable_maybe_uninit` and `zeroable_atomics`: Provide more [`Zeroable`]
84//!   impls.
85//! * `wasm_simd` and `aarch64_simd`: Support more SIMD types.
86//! * `min_const_generics`: Provides appropriate impls for arrays of all lengths
87//!   instead of just for a select list of array lengths.
88//! * `must_cast`: Provides the `must_` functions, which will compile error if
89//!   the requested cast can't be statically verified.
90//! * `const_zeroed`: Provides a const version of the `zeroed` function.
91
92#[cfg(all(target_arch = "aarch64", feature = "aarch64_simd"))]
93use core::arch::aarch64;
94#[cfg(all(target_arch = "wasm32", feature = "wasm_simd"))]
95use core::arch::wasm32;
96#[cfg(target_arch = "x86")]
97use core::arch::x86;
98#[cfg(target_arch = "x86_64")]
99use core::arch::x86_64;
100//
101use core::{
102  marker::*,
103  mem::{align_of, size_of},
104  num::*,
105  ptr::*,
106};
107
108// Used from macros to ensure we aren't using some locally defined name and
109// actually are referencing libcore. This also would allow pre-2018 edition
110// crates to use our macros, but I'm not sure how important that is.
111#[doc(hidden)]
112pub use ::core as __core;
113
114#[cfg(not(feature = "min_const_generics"))]
115macro_rules! impl_unsafe_marker_for_array {
116  ( $marker:ident , $( $n:expr ),* ) => {
117    $(unsafe impl<T> $marker for [T; $n] where T: $marker {})*
118  }
119}
120
121/// A macro to transmute between two types without requiring knowing size
122/// statically.
123macro_rules! transmute {
124  ($val:expr) => {
125    ::core::mem::transmute_copy(&::core::mem::ManuallyDrop::new($val))
126  };
127  // This arm is for use in const contexts, where the borrow required to use
128  // transmute_copy poses an issue since the compiler hedges that the type
129  // being borrowed could have interior mutability.
130  ($srcty:ty; $dstty:ty; $val:expr) => {{
131    #[repr(C)]
132    union Transmute<A, B> {
133      src: ::core::mem::ManuallyDrop<A>,
134      dst: ::core::mem::ManuallyDrop<B>,
135    }
136    ::core::mem::ManuallyDrop::into_inner(
137      Transmute::<$srcty, $dstty> { src: ::core::mem::ManuallyDrop::new($val) }
138        .dst,
139    )
140  }};
141}
142
143/// A macro to implement marker traits for various simd types.
144/// #[allow(unused)] because the impls are only compiled on relevant platforms
145/// with relevant cargo features enabled.
146#[allow(unused)]
147macro_rules! impl_unsafe_marker_for_simd {
148  ($(#[cfg($cfg_predicate:meta)])? unsafe impl $trait:ident for $platform:ident :: {}) => {};
149  ($(#[cfg($cfg_predicate:meta)])? unsafe impl $trait:ident for $platform:ident :: { $first_type:ident $(, $types:ident)* $(,)? }) => {
150    $( #[cfg($cfg_predicate)] )?
151    $( #[cfg_attr(feature = "nightly_docs", doc(cfg($cfg_predicate)))] )?
152    unsafe impl $trait for $platform::$first_type {}
153    $( #[cfg($cfg_predicate)] )? // To prevent recursion errors if nothing is going to be expanded anyway.
154    impl_unsafe_marker_for_simd!($( #[cfg($cfg_predicate)] )? unsafe impl $trait for $platform::{ $( $types ),* });
155  };
156}
157
158/// A macro for conditionally const-ifying a function.
159/// #[allow(unused)] because currently it is only used with the `must_cast` feature.
160#[allow(unused)]
161macro_rules! maybe_const_fn {
162  (
163      #[cfg($cfg_predicate:meta)]
164      $(#[$attr:meta])*
165      $vis:vis $(unsafe $($unsafe:lifetime)?)? fn $name:ident $($rest:tt)*
166  ) => {
167      #[cfg($cfg_predicate)]
168      $(#[$attr])*
169      $vis const $(unsafe $($unsafe)?)? fn $name $($rest)*
170
171      #[cfg(not($cfg_predicate))]
172      $(#[$attr])*
173      $vis $(unsafe $($unsafe)?)? fn $name $($rest)*
174    };
175}
176
177#[cfg(feature = "extern_crate_std")]
178extern crate std;
179
180#[cfg(feature = "extern_crate_alloc")]
181extern crate alloc;
182#[cfg(feature = "extern_crate_alloc")]
183#[cfg_attr(feature = "nightly_docs", doc(cfg(feature = "extern_crate_alloc")))]
184pub mod allocation;
185#[cfg(feature = "extern_crate_alloc")]
186pub use allocation::*;
187
188mod anybitpattern;
189pub use anybitpattern::*;
190
191pub mod checked;
192pub use checked::CheckedBitPattern;
193
194mod internal;
195
196mod zeroable;
197pub use zeroable::*;
198mod zeroable_in_option;
199pub use zeroable_in_option::*;
200
201mod pod;
202pub use pod::*;
203mod pod_in_option;
204pub use pod_in_option::*;
205
206#[cfg(feature = "must_cast")]
207mod must;
208#[cfg(feature = "must_cast")]
209#[cfg_attr(feature = "nightly_docs", doc(cfg(feature = "must_cast")))]
210pub use must::*;
211
212mod no_uninit;
213pub use no_uninit::*;
214
215mod contiguous;
216pub use contiguous::*;
217
218mod offset_of;
219// ^ no import, the module only has a macro_rules, which are cursed and don't
220// follow normal import/export rules.
221
222mod transparent;
223pub use transparent::*;
224
225#[cfg(feature = "derive")]
226#[cfg_attr(feature = "nightly_docs", doc(cfg(feature = "derive")))]
227pub use bytemuck_derive::{
228  AnyBitPattern, ByteEq, ByteHash, CheckedBitPattern, Contiguous, NoUninit,
229  Pod, TransparentWrapper, Zeroable,
230};
231
232/// The things that can go wrong when casting between [`Pod`] data forms.
233#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
234pub enum PodCastError {
235  /// You tried to cast a reference into a reference to a type with a higher
236  /// alignment requirement but the input reference wasn't aligned.
237  TargetAlignmentGreaterAndInputNotAligned,
238  /// If the element size of a slice changes, then the output slice changes
239  /// length accordingly. If the output slice wouldn't be a whole number of
240  /// elements, then the conversion fails.
241  OutputSliceWouldHaveSlop,
242  /// When casting an individual `T`, `&T`, or `&mut T` value the
243  /// source size and destination size must be an exact match.
244  SizeMismatch,
245  /// For this type of cast the alignments must be exactly the same and they
246  /// were not so now you're sad.
247  ///
248  /// This error is generated **only** by operations that cast allocated types
249  /// (such as `Box` and `Vec`), because in that case the alignment must stay
250  /// exact.
251  AlignmentMismatch,
252}
253#[cfg(not(target_arch = "spirv"))]
254impl core::fmt::Display for PodCastError {
255  fn fmt(&self, f: &mut core::fmt::Formatter) -> core::fmt::Result {
256    write!(f, "{:?}", self)
257  }
258}
259#[cfg(feature = "extern_crate_std")]
260#[cfg_attr(feature = "nightly_docs", doc(cfg(feature = "extern_crate_std")))]
261impl std::error::Error for PodCastError {}
262
263/// Re-interprets `&T` as `&[u8]`.
264///
265/// Any ZST becomes an empty slice, and in that case the pointer value of that
266/// empty slice might not match the pointer value of the input reference.
267#[inline]
268pub fn bytes_of<T: NoUninit>(t: &T) -> &[u8] {
269  unsafe { internal::bytes_of(t) }
270}
271
272/// Re-interprets `&mut T` as `&mut [u8]`.
273///
274/// Any ZST becomes an empty slice, and in that case the pointer value of that
275/// empty slice might not match the pointer value of the input reference.
276#[inline]
277pub fn bytes_of_mut<T: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern>(t: &mut T) -> &mut [u8] {
278  unsafe { internal::bytes_of_mut(t) }
279}
280
281/// Re-interprets `&[u8]` as `&T`.
282///
283/// ## Panics
284///
285/// This is like [`try_from_bytes`] but will panic on error.
286#[inline]
287#[cfg_attr(feature = "track_caller", track_caller)]
288pub fn from_bytes<T: AnyBitPattern>(s: &[u8]) -> &T {
289  unsafe { internal::from_bytes(s) }
290}
291
292/// Re-interprets `&mut [u8]` as `&mut T`.
293///
294/// ## Panics
295///
296/// This is like [`try_from_bytes_mut`] but will panic on error.
297#[inline]
298#[cfg_attr(feature = "track_caller", track_caller)]
299pub fn from_bytes_mut<T: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern>(s: &mut [u8]) -> &mut T {
300  unsafe { internal::from_bytes_mut(s) }
301}
302
303/// Reads from the bytes as if they were a `T`.
304///
305/// Unlike [`from_bytes`], the slice doesn't need to respect alignment of `T`,
306/// only sizes must match.
307///
308/// ## Failure
309/// * If the `bytes` length is not equal to `size_of::<T>()`.
310#[inline]
311pub fn try_pod_read_unaligned<T: AnyBitPattern>(
312  bytes: &[u8],
313) -> Result<T, PodCastError> {
314  unsafe { internal::try_pod_read_unaligned(bytes) }
315}
316
317/// Reads the slice into a `T` value.
318///
319/// Unlike [`from_bytes`], the slice doesn't need to respect alignment of `T`,
320/// only sizes must match.
321///
322/// ## Panics
323/// * This is like `try_pod_read_unaligned` but will panic on failure.
324#[inline]
325#[cfg_attr(feature = "track_caller", track_caller)]
326pub fn pod_read_unaligned<T: AnyBitPattern>(bytes: &[u8]) -> T {
327  unsafe { internal::pod_read_unaligned(bytes) }
328}
329
330/// Re-interprets `&[u8]` as `&T`.
331///
332/// ## Failure
333///
334/// * If the slice isn't aligned for the new type
335/// * If the slice's length isn’t exactly the size of the new type
336#[inline]
337pub fn try_from_bytes<T: AnyBitPattern>(s: &[u8]) -> Result<&T, PodCastError> {
338  unsafe { internal::try_from_bytes(s) }
339}
340
341/// Re-interprets `&mut [u8]` as `&mut T`.
342///
343/// ## Failure
344///
345/// * If the slice isn't aligned for the new type
346/// * If the slice's length isn’t exactly the size of the new type
347#[inline]
348pub fn try_from_bytes_mut<T: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern>(
349  s: &mut [u8],
350) -> Result<&mut T, PodCastError> {
351  unsafe { internal::try_from_bytes_mut(s) }
352}
353
354/// Cast `A` into `B`
355///
356/// ## Panics
357///
358/// * This is like [`try_cast`], but will panic on a size mismatch.
359#[inline]
360#[cfg_attr(feature = "track_caller", track_caller)]
361pub fn cast<A: NoUninit, B: AnyBitPattern>(a: A) -> B {
362  unsafe { internal::cast(a) }
363}
364
365/// Cast `&mut A` into `&mut B`.
366///
367/// ## Panics
368///
369/// This is [`try_cast_mut`] but will panic on error.
370#[inline]
371#[cfg_attr(feature = "track_caller", track_caller)]
372pub fn cast_mut<A: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern, B: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern>(
373  a: &mut A,
374) -> &mut B {
375  unsafe { internal::cast_mut(a) }
376}
377
378/// Cast `&A` into `&B`.
379///
380/// ## Panics
381///
382/// This is [`try_cast_ref`] but will panic on error.
383#[inline]
384#[cfg_attr(feature = "track_caller", track_caller)]
385pub fn cast_ref<A: NoUninit, B: AnyBitPattern>(a: &A) -> &B {
386  unsafe { internal::cast_ref(a) }
387}
388
389/// Cast `&[A]` into `&[B]`.
390///
391/// ## Panics
392///
393/// This is [`try_cast_slice`] but will panic on error.
394#[inline]
395#[cfg_attr(feature = "track_caller", track_caller)]
396pub fn cast_slice<A: NoUninit, B: AnyBitPattern>(a: &[A]) -> &[B] {
397  unsafe { internal::cast_slice(a) }
398}
399
400/// Cast `&mut [A]` into `&mut [B]`.
401///
402/// ## Panics
403///
404/// This is [`try_cast_slice_mut`] but will panic on error.
405#[inline]
406#[cfg_attr(feature = "track_caller", track_caller)]
407pub fn cast_slice_mut<
408  A: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern,
409  B: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern,
410>(
411  a: &mut [A],
412) -> &mut [B] {
413  unsafe { internal::cast_slice_mut(a) }
414}
415
416/// As [`align_to`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.align_to),
417/// but safe because of the [`Pod`] bound.
418#[inline]
419pub fn pod_align_to<T: NoUninit, U: AnyBitPattern>(
420  vals: &[T],
421) -> (&[T], &[U], &[T]) {
422  unsafe { vals.align_to::<U>() }
423}
424
425/// As [`align_to_mut`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.align_to_mut),
426/// but safe because of the [`Pod`] bound.
427#[inline]
428pub fn pod_align_to_mut<
429  T: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern,
430  U: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern,
431>(
432  vals: &mut [T],
433) -> (&mut [T], &mut [U], &mut [T]) {
434  unsafe { vals.align_to_mut::<U>() }
435}
436
437/// Try to cast `A` into `B`.
438///
439/// Note that for this particular type of cast, alignment isn't a factor. The
440/// input value is semantically copied into the function and then returned to a
441/// new memory location which will have whatever the required alignment of the
442/// output type is.
443///
444/// ## Failure
445///
446/// * If the types don't have the same size this fails.
447#[inline]
448pub fn try_cast<A: NoUninit, B: AnyBitPattern>(
449  a: A,
450) -> Result<B, PodCastError> {
451  unsafe { internal::try_cast(a) }
452}
453
454/// Try to convert a `&A` into `&B`.
455///
456/// ## Failure
457///
458/// * If the reference isn't aligned in the new type
459/// * If the source type and target type aren't the same size.
460#[inline]
461pub fn try_cast_ref<A: NoUninit, B: AnyBitPattern>(
462  a: &A,
463) -> Result<&B, PodCastError> {
464  unsafe { internal::try_cast_ref(a) }
465}
466
467/// Try to convert a `&mut A` into `&mut B`.
468///
469/// As [`try_cast_ref`], but `mut`.
470#[inline]
471pub fn try_cast_mut<
472  A: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern,
473  B: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern,
474>(
475  a: &mut A,
476) -> Result<&mut B, PodCastError> {
477  unsafe { internal::try_cast_mut(a) }
478}
479
480/// Try to convert `&[A]` into `&[B]` (possibly with a change in length).
481///
482/// * `input.as_ptr() as usize == output.as_ptr() as usize`
483/// * `input.len() * size_of::<A>() == output.len() * size_of::<B>()`
484///
485/// ## Failure
486///
487/// * If the target type has a greater alignment requirement and the input slice
488///   isn't aligned.
489/// * If the target element type is a different size from the current element
490///   type, and the output slice wouldn't be a whole number of elements when
491///   accounting for the size change (eg: 3 `u16` values is 1.5 `u32` values, so
492///   that's a failure).
493/// * Similarly, you can't convert between a [ZST](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/exotic-sizes.html#zero-sized-types-zsts)
494///   and a non-ZST.
495#[inline]
496pub fn try_cast_slice<A: NoUninit, B: AnyBitPattern>(
497  a: &[A],
498) -> Result<&[B], PodCastError> {
499  unsafe { internal::try_cast_slice(a) }
500}
501
502/// Try to convert `&mut [A]` into `&mut [B]` (possibly with a change in
503/// length).
504///
505/// As [`try_cast_slice`], but `&mut`.
506#[inline]
507pub fn try_cast_slice_mut<
508  A: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern,
509  B: NoUninit + AnyBitPattern,
510>(
511  a: &mut [A],
512) -> Result<&mut [B], PodCastError> {
513  unsafe { internal::try_cast_slice_mut(a) }
514}
515
516/// Fill all bytes of `target` with zeroes (see [`Zeroable`]).
517///
518/// This is similar to `*target = Zeroable::zeroed()`, but guarantees that any
519/// padding bytes in `target` are zeroed as well.
520///
521/// See also [`fill_zeroes`], if you have a slice rather than a single value.
522#[inline]
523pub fn write_zeroes<T: Zeroable>(target: &mut T) {
524  struct EnsureZeroWrite<T>(*mut T);
525  impl<T> Drop for EnsureZeroWrite<T> {
526    #[inline(always)]
527    fn drop(&mut self) {
528      unsafe {
529        core::ptr::write_bytes(self.0, 0u8, 1);
530      }
531    }
532  }
533  unsafe {
534    let guard = EnsureZeroWrite(target);
535    core::ptr::drop_in_place(guard.0);
536    drop(guard);
537  }
538}
539
540/// Fill all bytes of `slice` with zeroes (see [`Zeroable`]).
541///
542/// This is similar to `slice.fill(Zeroable::zeroed())`, but guarantees that any
543/// padding bytes in `slice` are zeroed as well.
544///
545/// See also [`write_zeroes`], which zeroes all bytes of a single value rather
546/// than a slice.
547#[inline]
548pub fn fill_zeroes<T: Zeroable>(slice: &mut [T]) {
549  if core::mem::needs_drop::<T>() {
550    // If `T` needs to be dropped then we have to do this one item at a time, in
551    // case one of the intermediate drops does a panic.
552    slice.iter_mut().for_each(write_zeroes);
553  } else {
554    // Otherwise we can be really fast and just fill everthing with zeros.
555    let len = slice.len();
556    unsafe { core::ptr::write_bytes(slice.as_mut_ptr(), 0u8, len) }
557  }
558}
559
560/// Same as [`Zeroable::zeroed`], but as a `const fn` const.
561#[cfg(feature = "const_zeroed")]
562#[inline]
563#[must_use]
564pub const fn zeroed<T: Zeroable>() -> T {
565  unsafe { core::mem::zeroed() }
566}