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  "path": "/t/pre-rfc-guarantee-that-pointers-to-osstr-has-the-same-layout-as-pointers-to-str-u8/24354#post_6",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T18:19:17.000Z",
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    "Allow limited access to `OsStr` bytes by epage · Pull Request #109698 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub"
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  "textContent": "I had a PR up for specifying that `transmute` was valid between `&OsStr` and `&[u8]` and libs-api, at the time, decided to instead make this done through explicit functions. See Allow limited access to `OsStr` bytes by epage · Pull Request #109698 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub",
  "title": "Pre-RFC: Guarantee that pointers to `OsStr` has the same layout as pointers to `str`/`[u8]`"
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