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Yeah. I guess that I just don't see what Pin provides that non-Copy/Clone does, when it comes to preventing the zeroed data from leaking elsewhere. In other w

Yeah. I guess that I just don't see what Pin provides that non-Copy/Clone does, when it comes to preventing the zeroed data from leaking elsewhere. In other words, why is a zeroing Drop of a type more secure if it uses Pin too?

ncmncm 8y ago
The unpleasant answer is that both might do no good at all, by themselves.
firethief 8y ago
Copy/Clone/move is a typesystem distinction. At codegen time, they all can mean "memcpy this byte range". E.g. how else to return a struct by value?