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rust-ptr-meta 0.1.4

Manipulate metadata of fat pointers

This package allows manipulating the metadata of fat pointers:

  • Naming the metadata’s type (as an associated type)

  • Extracting metadata from a pointer

  • Reconstructing a pointer from a data pointer and metadata

  • Representing vtables, the metadata for trait objects, as a type with some limited API.

Installation

Install rust-ptr-meta 0.1.4 as follows:

guix install rust-ptr-meta@0.1.4

Or install the latest version:

guix install rust-ptr-meta

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.