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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -975,9 +975,15 @@ pub trait UpperHex {
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/// `p` formatting.
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///
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/// The `Pointer` trait should format its output as a memory location. This is commonly presented
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- /// as hexadecimal.
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+ /// as hexadecimal. For more information on formatters, see [the module-level documentation][module].
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///
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- /// For more information on formatters, see [the module-level documentation][module].
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+ /// Printing of pointers is not a reliable way to discover how Rust programs are implemented.
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+ /// The act of reading an address changes the program itself, and may change how the data is represented
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+ /// in memory, and what optimizations are applied to the code.
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+ ///
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+ /// The printed pointer values are not guaranteed to be stable nor unique identifiers of objects.
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+ /// Rust allows moving values to different memory locations, and may reuse the same memory locations
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+ /// for different purposes.
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///
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/// [module]: ../../std/fmt/index.html
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///
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