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Rust 1.99 adds C variadic support and raw-pointer size and alignment APIs

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Rust 1.99 adds support for extern "C" variadic functions, APIs for obtaining raw-pointer size and alignment, and other stabilized APIs. Engineers maintaining Rust code can assess whether the new language and library capabilities apply to their projects.

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