Is there a way to call drop on a *mut T that doesn't necessarily implement Drop? I have a *mut T that points to what I know to be a valid T, and I would like to drop that T (and then free the underlying memory), but I'm not guaranteed that a custom Drop implementation exists. Thus, I'd like to do what Safe Rust would do (namely, if a Drop implementation exists, call drop, and then drop all of the struct fields recursively, etc), but manually. std::mem::drop won't work because it takes a value, not a reference, so I'd have to copy the memory pointed to by my *mut T in order to call std::mem::drop.
This should do what you're looking for: drop_in_place in std::ptr - Rust
Perfect, thanks!