<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><metacharset="utf-8"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><metaname="generator"content="rustdoc"><metaname="description"content="API documentation for the Rust `MemoryBuffer` struct in crate `inkwell`."><metaname="keywords"content="rust, rustlang, rust-lang, MemoryBuffer"><title>inkwell::memory_buffer::MemoryBuffer - Rust</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../../normalize.css"><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../../rustdoc.css"id="mainThemeStyle"><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../../dark.css"><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../../light.css"id="themeStyle"><scriptsrc="../../storage.js"></script><noscript><linkrel="stylesheet"href="../../noscript.css"></noscript><linkrel="shortcut icon"href="../../favicon.ico"><styletype="text/css">#crate-search{background-image:url("../../down-arrow.svg");}</style></head><bodyclass="rustdoc struct"><!--[if lte IE 8]><div class="warning">This old browser is unsupported and will most likely display funky things.</div><![endif]--><navclass="sidebar"><divclass="sidebar-menu">☰</div><ahref='../../inkwell/index.html'><divclass='logo-container'><imgsrc='../../rust-logo.png'alt='logo'></div></a><pclass='location'>Struct MemoryBuffer</p><divclass="sidebar-elems"><divclass="block items"><aclass="sidebar-title"href="#methods">Methods</a><divclass="sidebar-links"><ahref="#method.as_slice">as_slice</a><ahref="#method.create_from_file">create_from_file</a><ahref="#method.create_from_memory_range">create_from_memory_range</a><ahref="#method.create_from_memory_range_copy">create_from_memory_range_copy</a><ahref="#method.create_from_stdin">create_from_stdin</a><ahref="#method.create_object_file">create_object_file</a><ahref="#method.get_size">get_size</a></div><aclass="sidebar-title"href="#implementations">Trait Implementations</a><divclass="sidebar-links"><ahref="#impl-Debug">Debug</a><ahref="#impl-Drop">Drop</a></div><aclass="sidebar-title"href="#synthetic-implementations">Auto Trait Implementations</a><divclass="sidebar-links"><ahref="#impl-RefUnwindSafe">RefUnwindSafe</a><ahref="#impl-Send">!Send</a><ahref="#impl-Sync">!Sync</a><ahref="#impl-Unpin">Unpin</a><ahref="#impl-UnwindSafe">UnwindSafe</a></div><aclass="sidebar-title"href="#blanket-implementations">Blanket Implementations</a><divclass="sidebar-links"><ahref="#impl-Any">Any</a><ahref="#impl-Borrow%3CT%3E">Borrow<T></a><ahref="#impl-BorrowMut%3CT%3E">BorrowMut<T></a><ahref="#impl-From%3CT%3E">From<T></a><ahref="#impl-Into%3CU%3E">Into<U></a><ahref="#impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E">TryFrom<U></a><ahref="#impl-TryInto%3CU%3E">TryInto<U></a></div></div><pclass='location'><ahref='../index.html'>inkwell</a>::<wbr><ahref='index.html'>memory_buffer</a></p><script>window.sidebarCurrent={name:'MemoryBuffer',ty:'struct',relpath:''};</script><scriptdefersrc="sidebar-items.js"></script></div></nav><divclass="theme-picker"><buttonid="theme-picker"aria-label="Pick another theme!"><imgsrc="../../brush.svg"width="18"alt="Pick another theme!"></button><divid="theme-choices"></div></div><scriptsrc="../../theme.js"></script><navclass="sub"><formclass="search-form js-only"><divclass="search-container"><div><selectid="crate-search"><optionvalue="All crates">All crates</option></select><inputclass="search-input"name="search"autocomplete="off"spellcheck="false"placeholder="Click or press ‘S’ to search, ‘?’ for more options…"type="search"></div><aid="settings-menu"href="../../settings.html"><imgsrc="../../wheel.svg"width="18"alt="Change settings"></a></div></form></nav><sectionid="main"class="content"><h1class='fqn'><spanclass='out-of-band'><spanid='render-detail'><aid="toggle-all-docs"href="javascript:void(0)"title="collapse all docs">[<spanclass='inner'>−</span>]</a></span><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#15-17'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></span><spanclas
<p>This function is likely slightly cheaper than <code>create_from_memory_range_copy</code> since it intentionally
leaks data to LLVM so that it doesn't have to reallocate. <code>create_from_memory_range_copy</code> may be removed
in the future</p>
</div><h4id='method.create_from_memory_range_copy'class="method"><codeid='create_from_memory_range_copy.v'>pub fn <ahref='#method.create_from_memory_range_copy'class='fnname'>create_from_memory_range_copy</a>(input: &<aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.str.html">str</a>, name: &<aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.str.html">str</a>) -> Self</code><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#90-99'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>This will create a new <code>MemoryBuffer</code> from the given input.</p>
<p>This function is likely slightly more expensive than <code>create_from_memory_range</code> since it does not leak
data to LLVM, forcing LLVM to make a copy. This function may be removed in the future in favor of
<code>create_from_memory_range</code></p>
</div><h4id='method.as_slice'class="method"><codeid='as_slice.v'>pub fn <ahref='#method.as_slice'class='fnname'>as_slice</a>(&self) -><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.slice.html">&[</a><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.u8.html">u8</a><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.slice.html">]</a></code><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#102-108'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>Gets a byte slice of this <code>MemoryBuffer</code>.</p>
</div><h4id='method.get_size'class="method"><codeid='get_size.v'>pub fn <ahref='#method.get_size'class='fnname'>get_size</a>(&self) -><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.usize.html">usize</a></code><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#111-115'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>Gets the byte size of this <code>MemoryBuffer</code>.</p>
</div><h4id='method.create_object_file'class="method"><codeid='create_object_file.v'>pub fn <ahref='#method.create_object_file'class='fnname'>create_object_file</a>(self) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><<aclass="struct"href="../../inkwell/object_file/struct.ObjectFile.html"title="struct inkwell::object_file::ObjectFile">ObjectFile</a>, <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.unit.html">()</a>></code><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#119-131'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>Convert this <code>MemoryBuffer</code> into an <code>ObjectFile</code>. LLVM does not currently
provide any way to determine the cause of error if conversion fails.</p>
</div></div><h2id='implementations'class='small-section-header'>Trait Implementations<ahref='#implementations'class='anchor'></a></h2><divid='implementations-list'><h3id='impl-Drop'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/ops/drop/trait.Drop.html"title="trait core::ops::drop::Drop">Drop</a> for <aclass="struct"href="../../inkwell/memory_buffer/struct.MemoryBuffer.html"title="struct inkwell::memory_buffer::MemoryBuffer">MemoryBuffer</a></code><ahref='#impl-Drop'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#134-140'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.drop'class="method hidden"><codeid='drop.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/ops/drop/trait.Drop.html#tymethod.drop'class='fnname'>drop</a>(&mut self)</code><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#135-139'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Executes the destructor for this type. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/ops/drop/trait.Drop.html#tymethod.drop">Read more</a></p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-Debug'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/trait.Debug.html"title="trait core::fmt::Debug">Debug</a> for <aclass="struct"href="../../inkwell/memory_buffer/struct.MemoryBuffer.html"title="struct inkwell::memory_buffer::MemoryBuffer">MemoryBuffer</a></code><ahref='#impl-Debug'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#14'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.fmt'class="method hidden"><codeid='fmt.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/trait.Debug.html#tymethod.fmt'class='fnname'>fmt</a>(&self, f: &mut <aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/struct.Formatter.html"title="struct core::fmt::Formatter">Formatter</a>) -><aclass="type"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/type.Result.html"title="type core::fmt::Result">Result</a></code><aclass='srclink'href='../../src/inkwell/memory_buffer.rs.html#14'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Formats the value using the given formatter. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/fmt/trait.Debug.html#tymethod.fmt">Read more</a></p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-From%3CT%3E'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.From.html"title="trait core::convert::From">From</a><T> for T</code><ahref='#impl-From%3CT%3E'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#552-554'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.from'class="method hidden"><codeid='from.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.From.html#tymethod.from'class='fnname'>from</a>(t: T) -> T</code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#553'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Performs the conversion.</p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T, U><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><U> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> U: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.Into.html"title="trait core::convert::Into">Into</a><T>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-TryFrom%3CU%3E'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#571-577'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='associatedtype.Error'class="type"><codeid='Error.t'>type <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error'class="type">Error</a> = <aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/enum.Infallible.html"title="enum core::convert::Infallible">Infallible</a></code></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>The type returned in the event of a conversion error.</p>
</div><h4id='method.try_from'class="method hidden"><codeid='try_from.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#tymethod.try_from'class='fnname'>try_from</a>(value: U) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><T, <T as <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><U>>::<aclass="type"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type core::convert::TryFrom::Error">Error</a>></code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#574-576'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Performs the conversion.</p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-TryInto%3CU%3E'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T, U><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html"title="trait core::convert::TryInto">TryInto</a><U> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> U: <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-TryInto%3CU%3E'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#559-566'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='associatedtype.Error-1'class="type"><codeid='Error.t-1'>type <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html#associatedtype.Error'class="type">Error</a> = <U as <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>>::<aclass="type"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type core::convert::TryFrom::Error">Error</a></code></h4><divclass='docblock'><p>The type returned in the event of a conversion error.</p>
</div><h4id='method.try_into'class="method hidden"><codeid='try_into.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html#tymethod.try_into'class='fnname'>try_into</a>(self) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/result/enum.Result.html"title="enum core::result::Result">Result</a><U, <U as <aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html"title="trait core::convert::TryFrom">TryFrom</a><T>>::<aclass="type"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/convert/trait.TryFrom.html#associatedtype.Error"title="type core::convert::TryFrom::Error">Error</a>></code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/convert.rs.html#563-565'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Performs the conversion.</p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-BorrowMut%3CT%3E'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.BorrowMut.html"title="trait core::borrow::BorrowMut">BorrowMut</a><T> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> T: ?<aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/marker/trait.Sized.html"title="trait core::marker::Sized">Sized</a>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-BorrowMut%3CT%3E'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/borrow.rs.html#218-220'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.borrow_mut'class="method hidden"><codeid='borrow_mut.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.BorrowMut.html#tymethod.borrow_mut'class='fnname'>borrow_mut</a>(&mut self) -><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&mut </a>T</code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/borrow.rs.html#219'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Mutably borrows from an owned value. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.BorrowMut.html#tymethod.borrow_mut">Read more</a></p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-Borrow%3CT%3E'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.Borrow.html"title="trait core::borrow::Borrow">Borrow</a><T> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> T: ?<aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/marker/trait.Sized.html"title="trait core::marker::Sized">Sized</a>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-Borrow%3CT%3E'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/borrow.rs.html#213-215'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.borrow'class="method hidden"><codeid='borrow.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.Borrow.html#tymethod.borrow'class='fnname'>borrow</a>(&self) -><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&</a>T</code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/borrow.rs.html#214'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Immutably borrows from an owned value. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/borrow/trait.Borrow.html#tymethod.borrow">Read more</a></p>
</div></div><h3id='impl-Any'class='impl'><codeclass='in-band'>impl<T><aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/any/trait.Any.html"title="trait core::any::Any">Any</a> for T <spanclass="where fmt-newline">where<br> T: 'static + ?<aclass="trait"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/marker/trait.Sized.html"title="trait core::marker::Sized">Sized</a>, </span></code><ahref='#impl-Any'class='anchor'></a><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/any.rs.html#100-102'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h3><divclass='impl-items'><h4id='method.type_id'class="method hidden"><codeid='type_id.v'>fn <ahref='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/any/trait.Any.html#tymethod.type_id'class='fnname'>type_id</a>(&self) -><aclass="struct"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/any/struct.TypeId.html"title="struct core::any::TypeId">TypeId</a></code><aclass='srclink'href='https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/any.rs.html#101'title='goto source code'>[src]</a></h4><divclass='docblock hidden'><p>Gets the <code>TypeId</code> of <code>self</code>. <ahref="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/any/trait.Any.html#tymethod.type_id">Read more</a></p>
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