19. Unsafety¶

Legality Rules

19:1 Unsafety is the presence of unsafe operations in program text.

19:2 An unsafe operation is an operation that can potentially violate the memory-safety guarantees of Rust. Unsafe operations are referred to as unsafe Rust.

19:3 The unsafe operations are:

• 19:4 Dereferencing a value of a raw pointer type.

• 19:5 Reading or writing an external static.

• 19:6 Reading or writing a mutable static.

• 19:7 Accessing a field of a union, other than to assign to it.

• 19:8 Calling an unsafe function.

19:9 An unsafe context is either an unsafe block or an unsafe function.

19:10 An unsafe operation shall be used only within an unsafe context.