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- [std: Rewrite the `sync` modulehttps://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/71d4e77db8ad4b6d821da7e5d5300134ac95974e) (Nov 2014)
```diff
- pub fn doit(&self, f: ||) {
+ pub fn doit(&'static self, f: ||) {
```
> ```text
> The second layer is the layer provided by `std::sync` which is intended to be
> the thinnest possible layer on top of `sys_common` which is entirely safe to
> use. There are a few concerns which need to be addressed when making these
> system primitives safe:
>
> * Once used, the OS primitives can never be **moved**. This means that they
> essentially need to have a stable address. The static primitives use
> `&'static self` to enforce this, and the non-static primitives all use a
> `Box` to provide this guarantee.
> ```
The author of this diff is @alexcrichton. `sync::Once` contains only a pointer to (privately hidden) `Waiter`s, which are all stack-allocated. The `'static` bound to `sync::Once` is thus unnecessary to guarantee that any OS primitives are non-relocatable.
See https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/sync-once-per-instance/7918 for more context.
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