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($x:ty, $($xs:ty),+ $(,)?) =&gt; { ... };
}</code></pre><details class="toggle top-doc" open><summary class="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><div class="docblock"><p>Asserts that types are equal in size.</p>
<p>When performing operations such as pointer casts or dealing with <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.usize.html"><code>usize</code></a>
versus <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u64.html"><code>u64</code></a> versus <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u32.html"><code>u32</code></a>, the size of your types matter. That is where
this macro comes into play.</p>
<h2 id="alternatives"><a class="doc-anchor" href="#alternatives">§</a>Alternatives</h2>
<p>There also exists <a href="macro.assert_eq_size_val.html"><code>assert_eq_size_val</code></a> and
<a href="macro.assert_eq_size_ptr.html"><code>assert_eq_size_ptr</code></a>. Instead of specifying
types to compare, values sizes can be directly compared against each other.</p>
<h2 id="examples"><a class="doc-anchor" href="#examples">§</a>Examples</h2>
<p>These three types, despite being very different, all have the same size:</p>
<div class="example-wrap"><pre class="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><span class="macro">assert_eq_size!</span>([u8; <span class="number">4</span>], (u16, u16), u32);</code></pre></div>
<p>The following example fails to compile because <code>u32</code> has 4 times the size of
<code>u8</code>:</p>
<div class="example-wrap compile_fail"><a href="#" class="tooltip" title="This example deliberately fails to compile"></a><pre class="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><span class="macro">assert_eq_size!</span>(u32, u8);</code></pre></div>
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