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> As you might imagine, this operation is HIGHLY DANGEROUS.There’s nothing to stop you from transmuting 0 into a borrow, &T and then trying to dereference it. Voila, null pointer dereferencing in Rust!

Is this right? Why doesn't this function need to be marked unsafe?

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transmute is marked as unsafe, so it can only be used in unsafe blocks or functions.

My mistake. I clicked through to the docs, and didn't see any annotation.

http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/mem/fn.transmute....

Erk—that’s a bug.

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