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remove the memcpy-on-equal-ptrs assumption One of the libc we support, musl, [defines `memcpy` with `restrict` pointers](https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/string/memcpy.c#n5). This in fact matches the definition in the C standard. Calling that `memcpy` with overlapping pointers is clearly UB, who knows what the compiler did when optimizing this `memcpy` -- it certainly assumed source and destination to be disjoint. Lucky enough, it does not seem like we actually need this assumption that `memcpy(p, p, n)` is always allowed. clang and GCC need it since they use `memcpy` to compile C assignments, but [we use memmove for similar code](https://godbolt.org/z/bcW85WYcM). There are no known cases where LLVM introduces calls to memcpy on equal pointers itself. (And if there were, that would be a soundness bug in rustc due to the musl issue mentioned above.) This does mean we must make sure to never call the LLVM `memcpy` builtin on equal ranges even though the LangRef says that is allowed. Currently that is the case so we just need to make sure it remains the case. :) Cc `@rust-lang/opsem` `@rust-lang/wg-llvm` |
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