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authorAdam Carpenter <53hornet@gmail.com>2019-03-27 15:32:37 -0400
committerAdam Carpenter <53hornet@gmail.com>2019-03-27 15:32:37 -0400
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+fn main() {
+ let mut n_nonzero = 0;
+
+ for i in 0..10000 {
+ let ptr = i as *const u8; // <1> Convert `i` to a `pass:[*const T]`, a "`raw pointer`" of type `u8`. Raw pointers allow programmers to inspect raw memory addresses. We treat every address as a unit, ignoring the fact that most values span multiple bytes.
+ let byte_at_addr = unsafe { *ptr }; // <2> _Dereference_ the pointer. That is, read the value at address `i`. Another way of saying this is read the value being pointed to.
+
+ if byte_at_addr != 0 {
+ n_nonzero += 1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ println!("non-zero bytes in memory: {}", n_nonzero);
+} \ No newline at end of file