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-rw-r--r--library/alloc/src/vec/drain.rs6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/library/alloc/src/vec/drain.rs b/library/alloc/src/vec/drain.rs
index 541f99bcf..2b1a787cc 100644
--- a/library/alloc/src/vec/drain.rs
+++ b/library/alloc/src/vec/drain.rs
@@ -223,9 +223,9 @@ impl<T, A: Allocator> Drop for Drain<'_, T, A> {
}
// as_slice() must only be called when iter.len() is > 0 because
- // vec::Splice modifies vec::Drain fields and may grow the vec which would invalidate
- // the iterator's internal pointers. Creating a reference to deallocated memory
- // is invalid even when it is zero-length
+ // it also gets touched by vec::Splice which may turn it into a dangling pointer
+ // which would make it and the vec pointer point to different allocations which would
+ // lead to invalid pointer arithmetic below.
let drop_ptr = iter.as_slice().as_ptr();
unsafe {