# Function std::ptr::drop_in_place 1.8.0 [−] [src]

    #[lang = "drop_in_place"]
    pub unsafe fn drop_in_place<T>(to_drop: *mut T) where
        T: ?Sized,

Executes the destructor (if any) of the pointed-to value.

This has two use cases:

- It is required to use `drop_in_place` to drop unsized types like trait objects, because they can't be read out onto the stack and dropped normally.

- It is friendlier to the optimizer to do this over `ptr::read` when dropping manually allocated memory (e.g. when writing Box/Rc/Vec), as the compiler doesn't need to prove that it's sound to elide the copy.

# Undefined Behavior

This has all the same safety problems as `ptr::read` with respect to invalid pointers, types, and double drops.

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