From eb30c661c0f35e44c456e50c2655a4fcdb323f66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jonastepe <jonasprogrammer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:13:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] heap::deallocate expects a *mut u8 but here a *mut T is
 given. The final code is correct, the example here would not compile without
 the cast. I used *mut _ instead of *mut u8 to be consistent with the final
 code.

---
 src/doc/nomicon/vec-dealloc.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/doc/nomicon/vec-dealloc.md b/src/doc/nomicon/vec-dealloc.md
index b767caa491236..706fe680e0066 100644
--- a/src/doc/nomicon/vec-dealloc.md
+++ b/src/doc/nomicon/vec-dealloc.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ impl<T> Drop for Vec<T> {
             let elem_size = mem::size_of::<T>();
             let num_bytes = elem_size * self.cap;
             unsafe {
-                heap::deallocate(*self.ptr, num_bytes, align);
+                heap::deallocate(*self.ptr as *mut _, num_bytes, align);
             }
         }
     }