allow no-std but alloc

Cargo.toml

@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ all-features = true
 
 [features]
 default = ["std"]
-std = []
+std = ["alloc"]
+alloc = []
 
 [dependencies]
 rustversion = "1"

src/lib.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 //! This crate works fully on stable Rust, and also does not require the
 //! standard library. To disable references to the standard library, you must
 //! opt-out of the `std` feature using `default-features = false` in your
-//! `Cargo.toml` file.
+//! `Cargo.toml` file. When in no-std mode, a separate `alloc` feature flag
+//! is available to support casting to several [`alloc`] types not included
+//! in [`core`].
 //!
 //! Castaway provides the following key macros:
 //!
@@ -12,7 +14,13 @@
 //! - [`match_type`]: Match the result of an expression against multiple
 //!   concrete types.
 
-#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)]
+#![no_std]
+
+#[cfg(feature = "std")]
+extern crate std;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
+extern crate alloc;
 
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub mod internal;
@@ -79,8 +87,10 @@ pub use lifetime_free::LifetimeFree;
 /// `'static`. To mark a type as being lifetime-free and enable it to be casted
 /// to in this manner by this macro it must implement the [`LifetimeFree`]
 /// trait. This is implemented automatically for all primitive types and for
-/// several `core` types. If you enable the `std` crate feature, then it will
-/// also be implemented for several `std` types as well.
+/// several [`core`] types. If you enable the `std` crate feature, then it will
+/// also be implemented for several [`std`] types as well. If you enable the
+/// `alloc` crate feature, then it will be implemented for several [`alloc`]
+/// types without linking to the standard library as the `std` feature would.
 ///
 /// # Examples
 ///
@@ -278,6 +288,9 @@ macro_rules! match_type {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    #[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
+    use alloc::string::String;
+
     #[test]
     fn cast() {
         assert_eq!(cast!(0u8, u16), Err(0u8));
@@ -489,7 +502,7 @@ mod tests {
             3.2f64 => Err(v) if v == 3.2f64,
         }
 
-        #[cfg(feature = "std")]
+        #[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
         for String {
             String::from("hello world") => Ok(ref v) if v.as_str() == "hello world",
             "hello world" => Err("hello world"),

src/lifetime_free.rs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 /// types are safe to cast from non-static type parameters if their types are
 /// equal.
 ///
-/// This trait is used by [`cast!`] to determine what casts are legal on values
+/// This trait is used by [`cast!`](crate::cast) to determine what casts are legal on values
 /// without a `'static` type constraint.
 ///
 /// # Safety
@@ -104,13 +104,15 @@ tuple_impls! {
     T0 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9,
 }
 
-#[cfg(feature = "std")]
-mod std_impls {
+#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
+mod alloc_impls {
     use super::LifetimeFree;
 
-    unsafe impl LifetimeFree for String {}
+    unsafe impl LifetimeFree for alloc::string::String {}
 
-    unsafe impl<T: LifetimeFree> LifetimeFree for Box<T> {}
-    unsafe impl<T: LifetimeFree> LifetimeFree for Vec<T> {}
-    unsafe impl<T: LifetimeFree> LifetimeFree for std::sync::Arc<T> {}
+    unsafe impl<T: LifetimeFree> LifetimeFree for alloc::boxed::Box<T> {}
+    unsafe impl<T: LifetimeFree> LifetimeFree for alloc::vec::Vec<T> {}
+
+    #[rustversion::attr(since(1.60), cfg(target_has_atomic = "ptr"))]
+    unsafe impl<T: LifetimeFree> LifetimeFree for alloc::sync::Arc<T> {}
 }