Why move happen?

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I am writing a plugin for program written in C (wireshark) and wireshark initializes some structures in the plugin. So I do need mutable static structs in Rust. I made it work by creating a vector and doing mem::transmute but I wonder if it is possible to do it without copying to Vec and the way I would do it in C: just declare static array and passing pointer to array to Wireshark for initialization.

Here is minimized example of what is needed. I do not understand, why move happen. I am taking a reference to INSTANCE when creating array, so array should be initialized with pointer to INSTANCE, not with its copy?

extern "C" {
    pub fn register(hf: *mut ApiInitialized<i32>);
}
struct ApiInitialized<T>(T);
static mut INSTANCE: ApiInitialized<i32> = ApiInitialized(-1);
static mut LIST: [&ApiInitialized<i32>; 1] = [& unsafe {INSTANCE}];
fn init() {
    unsafe { register(LIST.as_mut_ptr() as *mut _); }
}

(Playground)

Errors:

   Compiling playground v0.0.1 (/playground)
error[E0507]: cannot move out of a raw pointer
 --> src/lib.rs:6:57
  |
6 | static mut LIST: [&ApiInitialized<i32>; 1] = [& unsafe {INSTANCE}];
  |                                                         ^^^^^^^^ move occurs because value has type `ApiInitialized<i32>`, which does not implement the `Copy` trait

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0507`.
error: could not compile `playground` due to previous error
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That error message is a little confusing since it references a "raw pointer" that isn't directly present in the code that's causing the error, but the problem is just that using a block of any type to return a value requires that you be able to move[1] the value.

If you do

unsafe {&INSTANCE}

it works fine, after fixing the visibility error that pops up.

  1. or copy ↩︎

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Thank you!. Initially I had it without unsafe and followed Intellij's suggestion to fix it, which compiled and gave this strange error. The way you suggest makes much more sense, and if I fixed it on my own instead of relaying on help from IDE, I probably would end up with the right code :slight_smile:

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Does IntelliJ use the rust analyzer and the rest of the Rust dev stack?… or it’s own?

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Intellij use its own analyzer.

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