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Published inFeb 2024
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Carl Fredrik Samson
Carl Fredrik Samson
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Carl Fredrik Samson

Carl Fredrik Samson is a popular technology writer and has been active in the Rust community since 2018. He has an MSc in Business Administration where he specialized in strategy and finance. When not writing, he's a father of two children and a CEO of a company with 300 employees. He's been interested in different kinds of technologies his whole life and his programming experience ranges from programming against old IBM mainframes to modern cloud computing, using everything from assembly to Visual Basic for Applications. He has contributed to several open source projects including the official documentation for asynchronous Rust.
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Discovering self-referential structs

What happened is that we created a self-referential struct, initialized it so that it took a pointer to itself, and then moved it. Let’s take a closer look:

  1. First, we received a future object as an argument to block_on. This is not a problem since the future isn’t self-referential yet, so we can move it around wherever we want to without issues (this is also why moving futures before they’re polled is perfectly fine using proper async/await).
  2. Then, we polled the future once. The optimization we did made one essential change. The future was located on the stack (inside the stack frame of our block_on function) when we polled it the first time.
  3. When we polled the future the first time, we initialized the variables to their initial state. Our writer variable took a pointer to our buffer variable (stored as a part of our coroutine) and made it self-referential at this point.
  4. The first time we polled the future...
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Carl Fredrik Samson

Carl Fredrik Samson is a popular technology writer and has been active in the Rust community since 2018. He has an MSc in Business Administration where he specialized in strategy and finance. When not writing, he's a father of two children and a CEO of a company with 300 employees. He's been interested in different kinds of technologies his whole life and his programming experience ranges from programming against old IBM mainframes to modern cloud computing, using everything from assembly to Visual Basic for Applications. He has contributed to several open source projects including the official documentation for asynchronous Rust.
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