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| (<span class="macro-nonterminal">$x</span>:ty, $(<span class="macro-nonterminal">$xs</span>:ty),+ $(,)<span class="question-mark">?</span>) => { ... }; |
| }</code></pre></div> |
| </div><details class="rustdoc-toggle top-doc" open><summary class="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><div class="docblock"><p>Asserts that types are equal in size.</p> |
| <p>When performing operations such as pointer casts or dealing with <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.usize.html"><code>usize</code></a> |
| versus <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u64.html"><code>u64</code></a> versus <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u32.html"><code>u32</code></a>, the size of your types matter. That is where |
| this macro comes into play.</p> |
| <h2 id="alternatives"><a href="#alternatives">Alternatives</a></h2> |
| <p>There also exists <a href="macro.assert_eq_size_val.html"><code>assert_eq_size_val</code></a> and |
| <a href="macro.assert_eq_size_ptr.html"><code>assert_eq_size_ptr</code></a>. Instead of specifying |
| types to compare, values’ sizes can be directly compared against each other.</p> |
| <h2 id="examples"><a href="#examples">Examples</a></h2> |
| <p>These three types, despite being very different, all have the same size:</p> |
| |
| <div class="example-wrap"><pre class="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><span class="macro">assert_eq_size!</span>([u8; <span class="number">4</span>], (u16, u16), u32);</code></pre></div> |
| <p>The following example fails to compile because <code>u32</code> has 4 times the size of |
| <code>u8</code>:</p> |
| |
| <div class="example-wrap compile_fail"><div class='tooltip'>ⓘ</div><pre class="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><span class="macro">assert_eq_size!</span>(u32, u8);</code></pre></div> |
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