Re: [PATCH v5 02/20] rust: io: add missing safety requirement in `IoCapable` methods

"Alexandre Courbot" <[email protected]>
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On Fri Jun 26, 2026 at 11:45 PM JST, Gary Guo wrote:
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> @@ -309,7 +312,11 @@ pub trait Io {
>      // Always inline to optimize out error path of `build_assert`.
>      #[inline(always)]
>      fn io_addr_assert<U>(&self, offset: usize) -> usize {
> -        build_assert!(offset_valid::<U>(offset, Self::Target::MIN_SIZE));
> +        // We cannot check alignment with `offset_valid` using `self.addr()`. So set 0 for it and
> +        // ensure alignment by checking that the alignment of `U` is smaller or equal to the
> +        // alignment of `Self::Target`.
> +        const_assert!(Alignment::of::<U>().as_usize() <= Self::Target::MIN_ALIGN.as_usize());

With `Region::MIN_ALIGN` being `4`, my understanding is that this will
make `read64` and other infallible 64-bit accessors unusable on untyped
I/O regions?
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