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It is currently possible to create a dangling Weak to a DST by calling Weak::new() for a sized type, then doing an unsized coercion. Therefore, the comments are wrong.

These comments were added in #73845. As far as I can tell, the guarantee in the comment was only previously used in the as_ptr method. However, the current implementation of as_ptr no longer relies on this guarantee.

It is currently possible to create a dangling `Weak` to a DST by
calling `Weak::new()` for a sized type, then doing an unsized coercion.
Therefore, the comments are wrong.

These comments were added in <rust-lang#73845>.
As far as I can tell, the guarantee in the comment was only previously
used in the `as_ptr` method. However, the current implementation of
`as_ptr` no longer relies on this guarantee.
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