Reference and nomicon contradict each other on `ManuallyDrop`

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The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming

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Reference and nomicon contradict each other on `ManuallyDrop` #383

Open leanderBehr opened 1 year ago

leanderBehr commented 1 year ago

Here the nomicon says to use ManuallyDrop rather than reorder fields in structs to control drop order. The linked reference currently suggests the exact opposite.