The safety clause on the Vec::set_len function says that:

• new_len must be less than or equal to capacity().
• The elements at old_len..new_len must be initialized.

However, the code example for std::ptr::copy violates the second rule

use std::ptr; unsafe fn from_buf_raw<T>(ptr: *const T, elts: usize) -> Vec<T> { let mut dst = Vec::with_capacity(elts); dst.set_len(elts); ptr::copy(ptr, dst.as_mut_ptr(), elts); dst }

The set_len is called before the values are initialized with the copy.

This could be fixed by either making the safety clause for set_len more inclusive, so that as long as you don't use the vector before initializing the values it's considered safe, or by switching the dst.set_len(elts); and ptr::copy(ptr, dst.as_mut_ptr(), alts); lines around in the example.