[HELP] Why is gdk::Atom::value() unsafe

[psychon]

As far as I can tell, this function just casts a number to another number.

gtk3-rs/gdk/src/atom.rs

Lines 47 to 49 in 69a4942

	pub unsafe fn value(self) -> usize {
	self.0 as usize
	}

I am not quite sure what ffi::GdkAtom actually is, but it seems to be an integer cast to a pointer (???):

gtk3-rs/gdk/src/atom.rs

Line 12 in 69a4942

pub const NONE: Atom = Atom(0 as *mut _);

Thus, I would suggest to drop the unsafe from here:

gtk3-rs/gdk/src/atom.rs

Line 47 in 69a4942

pub unsafe fn value(self) -> usize {

[bilelmoussaoui]

It probably shouldn't...the commit that added it doesn't mention the reasoning behind

[GuillaumeGomez]

It was apparently because of a clippy lint. Might be worth giving it another try if the situation changed.