New lint: transmute-num-to-bytes

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What it does

Detect open coding of (primitive int/float).to_ne_bytes() with transmute

Categories (optional)

• Kind: complexity

What is the advantage of the recommended code over the original code

Clearer, Removes unsafe

Drawbacks

None.

Example

let x: [u8; 8] = std::mem::transmute(0.0_f64)

Could be written as:

let x: [u8; 8] = 0.0_f64.to_ne_bytes()

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