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ptr::metadata: avoid references to extern types References to `extern types` are somewhat dubious entities, since generally we say that references must be dereferenceable for their size as determined via `size_of_val`, but with `extern type` that is an ill-defined statement. I'd like to make Miri warn for such cases since it interacts poorly with Stacked Borrows. To avoid warnings people can't fix, this requires not using references to `extern type` in the standard library, and I think `DynMetadata` is the only currently remaining use. so this changes `DynMetadata` to use a NonNull raw pointer instead. Given that the alignment was 1, this shouldn't really change anything meaningful. I also updated a comment added by `@scottmcm` in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125479, since I think the old comment is wrong. The `DynMetadata` type itself is not special, it is a normal aggregate. But computing field types for wide pointers (including references) is special.