thinbox provides an alternative implementation of the standard Rust [Box] container which has a
pointer-sized representation in all cases.
This property is mainly useful in niche Foreign-Function-Interface use-cases. You should probably
not use thinbox unless you wish to use unsized types as opaque data crossing an FFI boundary.
In particular, the author has found this crate useful in passing around Rust closure types as userdata pointers in several C-language FFI projects.
Inline rustdoc documentation is available.
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