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Always use core::arch #38

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@niklasf niklasf commented Jan 15, 2021

Hi, does this crate have a policy for the minimum supported Rust version? It would be a fair bit lighter after dropping support for Rust 1.26.x. I did not delete the feature flags for bc, although I guess no outside crate should set them.

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gz commented Jan 15, 2021

Hi, Thanks for submitting this pull request. Always happy to remove bit-cruft.

Because this crate is transitively used quite a bit, ideally there would be some data on how much rust <1.26 is still in use but I'm not aware of any data on this, are you?

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niklasf commented Jan 15, 2021

Not sure if anyone has usage data. I checked the status the most frequently downloaded crates:

crate msrv
rand 1.36
syn, quote 1.31
libc 1.13
bitflags 1.20
serde 1.13
log 1.31
... ...
serde_derive (!) 1.31
tokio 1.45

Then there's the Rust user survey results: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/12/16/rust-survey-2020.html#stability

And 1.34 is the oldest rustc in Debian ... usually pretty conservative.

There's a fair bit of controversy if and when bumping msrv is considered a breaking change: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-version-requirement-change-as-semver-breaking-or-not/20980

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niklasf commented Jan 17, 2021

Perhaps most convincing is that cc (a dependency in the fallback code!), now uses rustc 1.34 as the minimum supported Rust version: rust-lang/cc-rs@c668e9e. So unless cc is pinned to an older version, the fallback is broken anyway.

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gz commented Jan 20, 2021

Perfect, in that case I think we can safely merge this.

@gz gz merged commit 90a1a3b into gz:master Jan 20, 2021
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