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by steveklabnik 3043 days ago
It's cool, this is the only place where this kind of language is used. So even if you were familiar with Rust, you might not be familiar with this particular corner.

Mostly, it means "this is wrong but it is not undefined behavior".

> Or is it that (2) and (3) are the things that might happen as a result of (1)?

Yes, this.