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Further elaborate the lack of guarantees from Hasher #96828

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23 changes: 21 additions & 2 deletions library/core/src/hash/mod.rs
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Expand Up @@ -268,10 +268,29 @@ pub use macros::Hash;
/// instance (with [`write`] and [`write_u8`] etc.). Most of the time, `Hasher`
/// instances are used in conjunction with the [`Hash`] trait.
///
/// This trait makes no assumptions about how the various `write_*` methods are
/// This trait provides no guarantees about how the various `write_*` methods are
/// defined and implementations of [`Hash`] should not assume that they work one
/// way or another. You cannot assume, for example, that a [`write_u32`] call is
/// equivalent to four calls of [`write_u8`].
/// equivalent to four calls of [`write_u8`]. Nor can you assume that adjacent
/// `write` calls are merged, so it's possible, for example, that
/// ```
/// # fn foo(hasher: &mut impl std::hash::Hasher) {
/// hasher.write(&[1, 2]);
/// hasher.write(&[3, 4, 5, 6]);
/// # }
/// ```
/// and
/// ```
/// # fn foo(hasher: &mut impl std::hash::Hasher) {
/// hasher.write(&[1, 2, 3, 4]);
/// hasher.write(&[5, 6]);
/// # }
/// ```
/// end up producing different hashes.
///
/// Thus to produce the same hash value, [`Hash`] implementations must ensure
/// for equivalent items that exactly the same sequence of calls is made -- the
/// same methods with the same parameters in the same order.
///
/// # Examples
///
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