Some unsafe code that dereferences a raw pointer is equivalent to code using pointer methods:

• unsafe { *ptr } is the same as unsafe { ptr.read() }

• unsafe { *ptr = v; } is the same as unsafe { ptr.drop_in_place(); ptr.write(v); }

• &*ptr is ptr.as_ref().unwrap_unchecked()

• &mut *ptr is ptr.as_mut().unwrap_unchecked()

But I wonder if &mut (*ptr).field has an exact equivalent using methods, and more generally what syntactic patterns don't.

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