Add Tag(u8) newtype in an attempt to stop using byte-pointers for everything #565
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The longer-term goal is to make it so that all the pointers passed around inside the are either
Tagpointers orTpointers, so that we know whether we're using them for indexing into the control or the buckets. Then,u8pointers mean that we're referring to a raw allocation, rather than the control bytes.However, the current code isn't really built for this, and the result is a lot of pointer casts everywhere. I didn't want to just replace
u8withTageverywhere, since there are some cases where we useu8to really mean bytes, and that would be counter to the original purpose.One short-term gain, however, is that the constant tags and the various methods on them can now be real associated constants and methods, instead of just standalone functions and constants that have to be imported separately.
This change also bumps MSRV to 1.65.0. I could bump it higher, but only 1.65 was needed, so, I decided to go with the smallest amount.