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Clarify docs for unreachable! macro #61084

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Clarify docs for unreachable! macro
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Remove phrase "instead of a panic!"
blkerby May 23, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -445,9 +445,10 @@ macro_rules! writeln {
/// * Iterators that dynamically terminate.
///
/// If the determination that the code is unreachable proves incorrect, the
/// program immediately terminates with a [`panic!`]. The function [`unreachable_unchecked`],
/// which belongs to the [`std::hint`] module, informs the compiler to
/// optimize the code out of the release version entirely.
/// program immediately terminates with a [`panic!`].
///
/// The unsafe counterpart of this macro is the [`unreachable_unchecked`] function, which
/// will cause undefined behavior if the code is reached.
///
/// [`panic!`]: ../std/macro.panic.html
/// [`unreachable_unchecked`]: ../std/hint/fn.unreachable_unchecked.html
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