explicitly keep the door open for some but not all subobject provenance - #2338
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Miri has enforced fairly strict subobject provenance by default since ~forever, but the Reference never explicitly called this out as UB. Let's fix that. This is the conservative choice; we document this as UB now and maybe lift the UB restriction again in the future.
This PR includes two commitments that @rust-lang/opsem (and maybe @rust-lang/lang) should FCP:
I proposed for opsem to FCP these two choices in:
This PR should only be merged once both of those FCP completed.