Auto merge of #43980 - aidanhs:rollup, r=aidanhs

Rollup of 4 pull requests

- Successful merges: #43919, #43936, #43950, #43978
- Failed merges:

Author: bors

src/liballoc/fmt.rs

@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
 //!
 //! - [`fmt::Display`][`Display`] implementations assert that the type can be faithfully
 //!   represented as a UTF-8 string at all times. It is **not** expected that
-//!   all types implement the `Display` trait.
+//!   all types implement the [`Display`] trait.
 //! - [`fmt::Debug`][`Debug`] implementations should be implemented for **all** public types.
 //!   Output will typically represent the internal state as faithfully as possible.
 //!   The purpose of the [`Debug`] trait is to facilitate debugging Rust code. In

src/liballoc/string.rs

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 //! let message = s + " world!";
 //! ```
 //!
-//! If you have a vector of valid UTF-8 bytes, you can make a `String` out of
+//! If you have a vector of valid UTF-8 bytes, you can make a [`String`] out of
 //! it. You can do the reverse too.
 //!
 //! ```
@@ -155,17 +155,14 @@ use boxed::Box;
 /// takes_str(&s);
 /// ```
 ///
-/// [`&str`]: ../../std/primitive.str.html
-/// [`Deref`]: ../../std/ops/trait.Deref.html
-///
 /// This will create a [`&str`] from the `String` and pass it in. This
 /// conversion is very inexpensive, and so generally, functions will accept
 /// [`&str`]s as arguments unless they need a `String` for some specific
 /// reason.
 ///
 /// In certain cases Rust doesn't have enough information to make this
-/// conversion, known as `Deref` coercion. In the following example a string
-/// slice `&'a str` implements the trait `TraitExample`, and the function
+/// conversion, known as [`Deref`] coercion. In the following example a string
+/// slice [`&'a str`][`&str`] implements the trait `TraitExample`, and the function
 /// `example_func` takes anything that implements the trait. In this case Rust
 /// would need to make two implicit conversions, which Rust doesn't have the
 /// means to do. For that reason, the following example will not compile.
@@ -185,13 +182,13 @@ use boxed::Box;
 ///
 /// There are two options that would work instead. The first would be to
 /// change the line `example_func(&example_string);` to
-/// `example_func(example_string.as_str());`, using the method `as_str()`
+/// `example_func(example_string.as_str());`, using the method [`as_str()`]
 /// to explicitly extract the string slice containing the string. The second
 /// way changes `example_func(&example_string);` to
 /// `example_func(&*example_string);`. In this case we are dereferencing a
-/// `String` to a `str`, then referencing the `str` back to `&str`. The
-/// second way is more idiomatic, however both work to do the conversion
-/// explicitly rather than relying on the implicit conversion.
+/// `String` to a [`str`][`&str`], then referencing the [`str`][`&str`] back to
+/// [`&str`]. The second way is more idiomatic, however both work to do the
+/// conversion explicitly rather than relying on the implicit conversion.
 ///
 /// # Representation
 ///
@@ -287,6 +284,10 @@ use boxed::Box;
 /// ```
 ///
 /// Here, there's no need to allocate more memory inside the loop.
+///
+/// [`&str`]: ../../std/primitive.str.html
+/// [`Deref`]: ../../std/ops/trait.Deref.html
+/// [`as_str()`]: struct.String.html#method.as_str
 #[derive(PartialOrd, Eq, Ord)]
 #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
 pub struct String {
@@ -443,32 +444,22 @@ impl String {
     /// requires that it is valid UTF-8. `from_utf8()` checks to ensure that
     /// the bytes are valid UTF-8, and then does the conversion.
     ///
-    /// [`&str`]: ../../std/primitive.str.html
-    /// [`u8`]: ../../std/primitive.u8.html
-    /// [`Vec<u8>`]: ../../std/vec/struct.Vec.html
-    ///
     /// If you are sure that the byte slice is valid UTF-8, and you don't want
     /// to incur the overhead of the validity check, there is an unsafe version
     /// of this function, [`from_utf8_unchecked`], which has the same behavior
     /// but skips the check.
     ///
-    /// [`from_utf8_unchecked`]: struct.String.html#method.from_utf8_unchecked
-    ///
     /// This method will take care to not copy the vector, for efficiency's
     /// sake.
     ///
-    /// If you need a `&str` instead of a `String`, consider
+    /// If you need a [`&str`] instead of a `String`, consider
     /// [`str::from_utf8`].
     ///
-    /// [`str::from_utf8`]: ../../std/str/fn.from_utf8.html
-    ///
     /// The inverse of this method is [`as_bytes`].
     ///
-    /// [`as_bytes`]: #method.as_bytes
-    ///
     /// # Errors
     ///
-    /// Returns `Err` if the slice is not UTF-8 with a description as to why the
+    /// Returns [`Err`] if the slice is not UTF-8 with a description as to why the
     /// provided bytes are not UTF-8. The vector you moved in is also included.
     ///
     /// # Examples
@@ -497,7 +488,14 @@ impl String {
     /// See the docs for [`FromUtf8Error`] for more details on what you can do
     /// with this error.
     ///
+    /// [`from_utf8_unchecked`]: struct.String.html#method.from_utf8_unchecked
+    /// [`&str`]: ../../std/primitive.str.html
+    /// [`u8`]: ../../std/primitive.u8.html
+    /// [`Vec<u8>`]: ../../std/vec/struct.Vec.html
+    /// [`str::from_utf8`]: ../../std/str/fn.from_utf8.html
+    /// [`as_bytes`]: struct.String.html#method.as_bytes
     /// [`FromUtf8Error`]: struct.FromUtf8Error.html
+    /// [`Err`]: ../../stdresult/enum.Result.html#variant.Err
     #[inline]
     #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
     pub fn from_utf8(vec: Vec<u8>) -> Result<String, FromUtf8Error> {
@@ -594,9 +592,11 @@ impl String {
         Cow::Owned(res)
     }
 
-    /// Decode a UTF-16 encoded vector `v` into a `String`, returning `Err`
+    /// Decode a UTF-16 encoded vector `v` into a `String`, returning [`Err`]
     /// if `v` contains any invalid data.
     ///
+    /// [`Err`]: ../../std/result/enum.Result.htlm#variant.Err
+    ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
     /// Basic usage:
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ impl String {
         decode_utf16(v.iter().cloned()).collect::<Result<_, _>>().map_err(|_| FromUtf16Error(()))
     }
 
-    /// Decode a UTF-16 encoded vector `v` into a string, replacing
+    /// Decode a UTF-16 encoded slice `v` into a `String`, replacing
     /// invalid data with the replacement character (U+FFFD).
     ///
     /// # Examples
@@ -800,11 +800,12 @@ impl String {
     /// If you do not want this "at least" behavior, see the [`reserve_exact`]
     /// method.
     ///
-    /// [`reserve_exact`]: #method.reserve_exact
-    ///
     /// # Panics
     ///
-    /// Panics if the new capacity overflows `usize`.
+    /// Panics if the new capacity overflows [`usize`].
+    ///
+    /// [`reserve_exact`]: struct.String.html#method.reserve_exact
+    /// [`usize`]: ../../std/primitive.usize.html
     ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
@@ -909,7 +910,9 @@ impl String {
         self.vec.shrink_to_fit()
     }
 
-    /// Appends the given `char` to the end of this `String`.
+    /// Appends the given [`char`] to the end of this `String`.
+    ///
+    /// [`char`]: ../../std/primitive.char.html
     ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
@@ -990,7 +993,9 @@ impl String {
 
     /// Removes the last character from the string buffer and returns it.
     ///
-    /// Returns `None` if this `String` is empty.
+    /// Returns [`None`] if this `String` is empty.
+    ///
+    /// [`None`]: ../../std/option/enum.Option.html#variant.None
     ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
@@ -1019,7 +1024,7 @@ impl String {
         Some(ch)
     }
 
-    /// Removes a `char` from this `String` at a byte position and returns it.
+    /// Removes a [`char`] from this `String` at a byte position and returns it.
     ///
     /// This is an `O(n)` operation, as it requires copying every element in the
     /// buffer.
@@ -1389,7 +1394,7 @@ impl String {
     /// replaces with the given string, and yields the removed chars.
     /// The given string doesn’t need to be the same length as the range.
     ///
-    /// Note: The element range is removed when the `Splice` is dropped,
+    /// Note: The element range is removed when the [`Splice`] is dropped,
     /// even if the iterator is not consumed until the end.
     ///
     /// # Panics
@@ -1398,6 +1403,7 @@ impl String {
     /// boundary, or if they're out of bounds.
     ///
     /// [`char`]: ../../std/primitive.char.html
+    /// [`Splice`]: ../../std/string/struct.Splice.html
     ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
@@ -1450,10 +1456,13 @@ impl String {
         }
     }
 
-    /// Converts this `String` into a `Box<str>`.
+    /// Converts this `String` into a [`Box`]`<`[`str`]`>`.
     ///
     /// This will drop any excess capacity.
     ///
+    /// [`Box`]: ../../std/boxed/struct.Box.html
+    /// [`str`]: ../../std/primitive.str.html
+    ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
     /// Basic usage: