make std::intrinsics functions actually be intrinsics

[RalfJung]

Most of the functions in std::intrinsics are actually intrinsics, but some are not: for historical reasons, std::intrinsics::{copy,copy_nonoverlapping,write_bytes} are accessible on stable, and the versions in std::ptr are just re-exports. These functions are not intrinsics, but wrappers around the intrinsic, because they add extra debug assertions.

This PR makes the functions in std::intrinsics actually be intrinsics.

• The advantage is that we can now use it in tests that need to directly call the intrinsic, thus removing a footgun for compiler development. We also remove the extended user-facing doc comments of these functions out of a file that should be largely internal documentation.
• The downside is that if users are using those functions directly, they will not get the debug assertions any more. Note however that those users are already ignoring a deprecation warning, so I think this is fine. Furthermore, if someone imports the intrinsic name of this function and turns that into a function pointer, that will no longer work, since only the wrapper functions can be turned into a function pointer. I would be rather surprised if anyone did this, though... and again, they must have already ignored a deprecation warning. Still, seems worth a crater run, if there's general agreement that we want to go ahead with this change.

(intrinsics::drop_in_place also remains not-an-intrinsic, which bugs me, but oh well, not much we can do about it; we can't remove it from the module as the path is accidentally-stable.)

Cc @rust-lang/libs-api @saethlin

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Some changes occurred to the intrinsics. Make sure the CTFE / Miri interpreter
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[jhpratt]

(intrinsics::drop_in_place also remains not-an-intrinsic, which bugs me, but oh well, not much we can do about it; we can't remove it from the module as the path is accidentally-stable.)

I'd be interested in seeing a crater run on that, to be honest. We've pulled the rug on things that were accidentally stabilized before, even long after the fact.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

r=me with test confirmed to be adjusted as expected

[RalfJung]

Since this is a slight breaking change (of accidentally-stable API surface), does it need an FCP of some sort -- from @rust-lang/libs-api, I assume?

[Amanieu]

FCP since this is very slightly breaking, though unlikely to cause any issues in practice.

@rfcbot merge

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[RalfJung]

@bors try

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⌛ Trying commit 5d60226 with merge b8c67c6...

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☀️ Try build successful - checks-actions
Build commit: b8c67c6 (b8c67c6e3233dac3bcd238e82e72152bf538d0fa)

[RalfJung]

r=me with test confirmed to be adjusted as expected

@bors r=Mark-Simulacrum

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📌 Commit 5d60226 has been approved by Mark-Simulacrum

It is now in the queue for this repository.

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🔒 Merge conflict

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Error message

Auto-merging tests/ui/consts/missing_span_in_backtrace.stderr
Auto-merging tests/ui/consts/copy-intrinsic.stderr
Auto-merging tests/ui/consts/copy-intrinsic.rs
Auto-merging tests/ui/consts/const-eval/raw-pointer-ub.stderr
Auto-merging tests/ui/consts/const-eval/raw-pointer-ub.rs
Auto-merging library/core/src/ptr/mod.rs
Auto-merging library/core/src/intrinsics/mod.rs
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in library/core/src/intrinsics/mod.rs
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

[RalfJung]

@bors r=Mark-Simulacrum

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📌 Commit a29756d has been approved by Mark-Simulacrum

It is now in the queue for this repository.

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⌛ Testing commit a29756d with merge f8e9e76...

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☀️ Test successful - checks-actions
Approved by: Mark-Simulacrum
Pushing f8e9e76 to master...

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What is this?

This is an experimental post-merge analysis report that shows differences in test outcomes between the merged PR and its parent PR.

Comparing a8e4c68 (parent) -> f8e9e76 (this PR)

Test differences

Show 404 test diffs

404 doctest diffs were found. These are ignored, as they are noisy.

Test dashboard

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And then open test-dashboard/index.html in your browser to see an overview of all executed tests.

Job duration changes

1. x86_64-apple-1: 8379.4s -> 6780.8s (-19.1%)
2. x86_64-msvc-ext2: 5673.9s -> 6649.6s (17.2%)
3. x86_64-msvc-1: 9994.1s -> 8343.2s (-16.5%)
4. dist-aarch64-apple: 5276.9s -> 5937.4s (12.5%)
5. dist-apple-various: 7229.0s -> 7975.2s (10.3%)
6. aarch64-apple: 4704.3s -> 4340.6s (-7.7%)
7. dist-android: 2724.3s -> 2560.2s (-6.0%)
8. dist-powerpc-linux: 5157.0s -> 5455.3s (5.8%)
9. dist-ohos-armv7: 4243.4s -> 4478.0s (5.5%)
10. dist-x86_64-msvc-alt: 8029.8s -> 7586.5s (-5.5%)

How to interpret the job duration changes?

Job durations can vary a lot, based on the actual runner instance
that executed the job, system noise, invalidated caches, etc. The table above is provided
mostly for t-infra members, for simpler debugging of potential CI slow-downs.

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Finished benchmarking commit (f8e9e76): comparison URL.

Overall result: ❌✅ regressions and improvements - no action needed

@rustbot label: -perf-regression

Instruction count

This is the most reliable metric that we have; it was used to determine the overall result at the top of this comment. However, even this metric can sometimes exhibit noise.

	mean	range	count
Regressions ❌ (primary)	-	-	0
Regressions ❌ (secondary)	0.1%	[0.1%, 0.1%]	1
Improvements ✅ (primary)	-0.4%	[-0.4%, -0.4%]	1
Improvements ✅ (secondary)	-0.9%	[-0.9%, -0.9%]	1
All ❌✅ (primary)	-0.4%	[-0.4%, -0.4%]	1

Max RSS (memory usage)

Results (primary 0.6%, secondary 0.1%)

This is a less reliable metric that may be of interest but was not used to determine the overall result at the top of this comment.

	mean	range	count
Regressions ❌ (primary)	2.9%	[0.7%, 4.5%]	4
Regressions ❌ (secondary)	5.5%	[5.5%, 5.5%]	1
Improvements ✅ (primary)	-2.5%	[-3.5%, -1.6%]	3
Improvements ✅ (secondary)	-0.8%	[-2.5%, -0.4%]	6
All ❌✅ (primary)	0.6%	[-3.5%, 4.5%]	7

Cycles

Results (secondary -0.7%)

This is a less reliable metric that may be of interest but was not used to determine the overall result at the top of this comment.

	mean	range	count
Regressions ❌ (primary)	-	-	0
Regressions ❌ (secondary)	-	-	0
Improvements ✅ (primary)	-	-	0
Improvements ✅ (secondary)	-0.7%	[-0.8%, -0.6%]	3
All ❌✅ (primary)	-	-	0

Binary size

Results (primary -0.1%)

This is a less reliable metric that may be of interest but was not used to determine the overall result at the top of this comment.

	mean	range	count
Regressions ❌ (primary)	0.1%	[0.0%, 0.1%]	5
Regressions ❌ (secondary)	-	-	0
Improvements ✅ (primary)	-0.1%	[-0.4%, -0.0%]	28
Improvements ✅ (secondary)	-	-	0
All ❌✅ (primary)	-0.1%	[-0.4%, 0.1%]	33

Bootstrap: 776.444s -> 775.927s (-0.07%)
Artifact size: 365.63 MiB -> 365.55 MiB (-0.02%)