In Rust, creating a reference to uninitialized data is undefined behavior, even if you don't access the data through it[1]. The optimizer assumes all references

In Rust, creating a reference to uninitialized data is undefined behavior, even if you don't access the data through it[1]. The optimizer assumes all references are intialized. [1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/#pointer-to-reference-conversion https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/#pointer-to-reference-conv...