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Author here, you’re correct. You can customize your validation context for your specific needs. For example, if you don’t have allocation available (i.e. `#![no_std]` without the alloc crate) then you’ll probably need to write your own mapping system to handle shared pointers. Or you can just not use them if that works better for you. That’s also a large part of why rkyv uses generics so heavily.

If your data is read-only then pointing to the same object from two locations is (usually) fine. But rkyv also supports in-place mutability, which requires validating that no two pointers will overlap each other. Otherwise you could have simultaneous mutable borrows to the same value which is UB.