Add a function to turn Box<T> into Box<[T]> (into_boxed_slice)

Author: elichai

src/liballoc/boxed.rs

@@ -239,6 +239,16 @@ impl<T> Box<T> {
     pub fn pin(x: T) -> Pin<Box<T>> {
         (box x).into()
     }
+
+    /// Converts a `Box<T>` into a `Box<[T]>`
+    ///
+    /// This conversion does not allocate on the heap and happens in place.
+    ///
+    #[unstable(feature = "box_into_boxed_slice", issue = "71582")]
+    pub fn into_boxed_slice(boxed: Box<T>) -> Box<[T]> {
+        // *mut T and *mut [T; 1] have the same size and alignment
+        unsafe { Box::from_raw(Box::into_raw(boxed) as *mut [T; 1] as *mut [T]) }
+    }
 }
 
 impl<T> Box<[T]> {