When writing unsafe code you may accidentally write this:

#[derive(Copy,Clone)]
struct Foo {
    field: u32,
    field2: u16,
}

fn foo(ptr: *const Foo) -> u32 {
    unsafe { *ptr }.field
}

The foo function unfortunately reads the entire struct Foo and then reads field from the copy of Foo. The user probably meant to write unsafe { (*ptr).field }. Is there a clippy lint for this scenario?

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