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Raw arrays are not FFI-safe, even though they are sized. I think this should be mentioned in the Nomicon.

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ says they should still consume a byte of space.
* DST pointers (wide pointers) and tuples are not a concept
in C, and as such are never FFI-safe.

* Raw arrays of types are not FFI-safe.
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"Raw arrays" is ambiguous, we should explain the situation and what repr(C) does, like other explanations, I think.

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