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This is cute, but I hope it never turns up in any real codebase!
There’s an updated version with Windows support and better performance: https://github.com/John2143/totally-speedy-transmute/
What worries me is this macro, which “smuggles” the unsafe keyword past the forbid(unsafe_code) flag: https://github.com/John2143/totally-speedy-transmute/blob/ma...
In my mind, this kind of capability makes Rust crate safety scanning and associated metadata worthless as currently implemented.
Package management tools ought to store code instead of binaries, and perform safety checks to via instrumented compilers.
The Rust team did a deep dive on the bug in 2020, which has some more details that might be helpful to understanding what's going on: https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/blob/master/design-me....