Auto merge of #1973 - RalfJung:rustup, r=RalfJung

implement const_allocate intrinsic

This is needed to make the libcore test suite pass again.

Author: bors

rust-version

@@ -1 +1 @@
-4e8fb743ccbec27344b2dd42de7057f41d4ebfdd
+78450d2d602b06d9b94349aaf8cece1a4acaf3a8

src/shims/intrinsics.rs

@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ pub trait EvalContextExt<'mir, 'tcx: 'mir>: crate::MiriEvalContextExt<'mir, 'tcx
                 let right = this.read_immediate(right)?;
                 this.binop_ignore_overflow(mir::BinOp::Ne, &left, &right, dest)?;
             }
+            "const_allocate" => {
+                // For now, for compatibility with the run-time implementation of this, we just return null.
+                // See <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/93935>.
+                this.write_null(dest)?;
+            }
 
             // Raw memory accesses
             "volatile_load" => {