alt Hacker NewsTo be fair, Vec::set_len bug in Rust was in 2021. And even then it had to be annotated as `unsafe`. It was then deprecated and a linter check was added: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/7681
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orlp • today at 8:46 AM
Vec::set_len is by no means deprecated. The lint you linked only covers a very specific unsound pattern using set_len.
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To be even fair-er, it wasn't actually memory unsafety, it was "just" unsoundness, there was a type, that IF you gave it an io reader implementation that was weird, that implementation could see uninit data, or expose uninit data elsewhere, but the only readers actually used were well behaved readers.