rust-lang/rust-clippy

Lint against calling intrinsics that have stable or safe wrappers

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#2,997 opened on Aug 3, 2018

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There are some intrinsics that there should be no reason to call. For example core::intrinsics::size_of. This intrinsic is exposed by the safe function core::mem::size_of which should always be called instead.

I would like to suggest a Clippy lint that notices calls to no-reason-to-call intrinsics and recommends the right stable or safe wrapper to call instead.

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Identify intrinsics with stable wrappers and create a Clippy lint to suggest them.
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rust
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tooling
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