### What it does Checks for `as` casts between raw pointers to slices with differently sized elements. ### Why is this bad? The produced raw pointer to a slice does not update its length metadata. The produced pointer will point to a different number of bytes than the original pointer because the length metadata of a raw slice pointer is in elements rather than bytes. Producing a slice reference from the raw pointer will either create a slice with less data (which can be surprising) or create a slice with more data and cause Undefined Behavior. ### Example // Missing data ``` let a = [1_i32, 2, 3, 4]; let p = &a as *const [i32] as *const [u8]; unsafe { println!("{:?}", &*p); } ``` // Undefined Behavior (note: also potential alignment issues) ``` let a = [1_u8, 2, 3, 4]; let p = &a as *const [u8] as *const [u32]; unsafe { println!("{:?}", &*p); } ``` Instead use `ptr::slice_from_raw_parts` to construct a slice from a data pointer and the correct length ``` let a = [1_i32, 2, 3, 4]; let old_ptr = &a as *const [i32]; // The data pointer is cast to a pointer to the target `u8` not `[u8]` // The length comes from the known length of 4 i32s times the 4 bytes per i32 let new_ptr = core::ptr::slice_from_raw_parts(old_ptr as *const u8, 16); unsafe { println!("{:?}", &*new_ptr); } ```