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Explicate what "Rc" and "Arc" stand for.
ucarion Jun 4, 2017
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Use single quotes, and doc the Rc struct itself.
ucarion Jun 5, 2017
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion src/liballoc/arc.rs
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/// necessarily) at _exactly_ `MAX_REFCOUNT + 1` references.
const MAX_REFCOUNT: usize = (isize::MAX) as usize;

/// A thread-safe reference-counting pointer.
/// A thread-safe reference-counting pointer. 'Arc' stands for 'Atomically
/// Reference Counted'.
///
/// The type `Arc<T>` provides shared ownership of a value of type `T`,
/// allocated in the heap. Invoking [`clone`][clone] on `Arc` produces
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions src/liballoc/rc.rs
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#![allow(deprecated)]

//! Single-threaded reference-counting pointers.
//! Single-threaded reference-counting pointers. 'Rc' stands for 'Reference
//! Counted'.
//!
//! The type [`Rc<T>`][`Rc`] provides shared ownership of a value of type `T`,
//! allocated in the heap. Invoking [`clone`][clone] on [`Rc`] produces a new
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value: T,
}

/// A single-threaded reference-counting pointer.
/// A single-threaded reference-counting pointer. 'Rc' stands for 'Reference
/// Counted'.
///
/// See the [module-level documentation](./index.html) for more details.
///
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