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From:   Alice Ryhl <alice@ryhl.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/15] rust: sync: change error type of constructor
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To:     Benno Lossin <y86-dev@protonmail.com>
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On 4/3/23 17:44, Benno Lossin wrote:
> Change the error type of the constructors of `Arc` and `UniqueArc` to be
> `AllocError` instead of `Error`. This makes the API more clear as to
> what can go wrong when calling `try_new` or its variants.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benno Lossin <y86-dev@protonmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>