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lolbinarycat
opened on Jun 11, 2025

I would expect it to support all the same patterns that primitive:reference does, but nope! you can't really use it for anything except searching for the pointer type

some examples of things that work with one but not the other:

works does not work
primitive:reference -> primitive:pointer ->
primitive:reference<u8> -> primitive:pointer<u8> ->
&u8 -> *const u8 ->
reference<mut, u8> -> pointer<mut, u8> ->

Tested on 1.86.0 and latest nightly.

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  6. lolbinarycat commented on Aug 21, 2025

    @lolbinarycat
    lolbinarycat
    on Aug 21, 2025
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    It seems like raw pointers just don't exist in the search index, which can lead to some weird outputs:

    screenshot of a search for `-> AtomicPtr`
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    closed this as completedin #145731on Aug 23, 2025
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    Unrolled build for #145731

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