1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Meet Safe and Unsafe
    1. 2.1. How Safe and Unsafe Interact
    2. 2.2. Working with Unsafe
  3. 3. Data Layout
    1. 3.1. repr(Rust)
    2. 3.2. Exotically Sized Types
    3. 3.3. Other reprs
  4. 4. Ownership
    1. 4.1. References
    2. 4.2. Lifetimes
    3. 4.3. Limits of Lifetimes
    4. 4.4. Lifetime Elision
    5. 4.5. Unbounded Lifetimes
    6. 4.6. Higher-Rank Trait Bounds
    7. 4.7. Subtyping and Variance
    8. 4.8. Drop Check
    9. 4.9. PhantomData
    10. 4.10. Splitting Borrows
  5. 5. Type Conversions
    1. 5.1. Coercions
    2. 5.2. The Dot Operator
    3. 5.3. Casts
    4. 5.4. Transmutes
  6. 6. Uninitialized Memory
    1. 6.1. Checked
    2. 6.2. Drop Flags
    3. 6.3. Unchecked
  7. 7. Ownership Based Resource Management
    1. 7.1. Constructors
    2. 7.2. Destructors
    3. 7.3. Leaking
  8. 8. Unwinding
    1. 8.1. Exception Safety
    2. 8.2. Poisoning
  9. 9. Concurrency
    1. 9.1. Races
    2. 9.2. Send and Sync
    3. 9.3. Atomics
  10. 10. Implementing Vec
    1. 10.1. Layout
    2. 10.2. Allocating
    3. 10.3. Push and Pop
    4. 10.4. Deallocating
    5. 10.5. Deref
    6. 10.6. Insert and Remove
    7. 10.7. IntoIter
    8. 10.8. RawVec
    9. 10.9. Drain
    10. 10.10. Handling Zero-Sized Types
    11. 10.11. Final Code
  11. 11. Implementing Arc and Mutex

Data Representation in Rust

Low-level programming cares a lot about data layout. It's a big deal. It also pervasively influences the rest of the language, so we're going to start by digging into how data is represented in Rust.