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Rust errors / Ownership and borrowing

Rust compiler error · checked with rustc 1.99.0

Rust error E0568: auto traits cannot have super traits or lifetime bounds

What it meansA super trait has been added to an auto trait.

What rustc prints

error[E0568]: auto traits cannot have super traits or lifetime bounds
 --> main.rs:3:20
  |
3 | auto trait Bound : Copy {} // error!
  |            -----   ^^^^
  |            |
  |            auto traits cannot have super traits or lifetime bounds

Real output of rustc 1.99.0 compiling the official example below (2021 edition). Your names and line numbers will differ; the first line is the part to match.

E0568Ownership and borrowing
Activein rustc 1.99.0
8related errors linked below

The compiler team's explanation

A super trait has been added to an auto trait.

Erroneous code example:

#![feature(auto_traits)]

auto trait Bound : Copy {} // error!

fn main() {}

Since an auto trait is implemented on all existing types, adding a super trait would filter out a lot of those types. In the current example, almost none of all the existing types could implement Bound because very few of them have the Copy trait.

To fix this issue, just remove the super trait:

#![feature(auto_traits)]

auto trait Bound {} // ok!

fn main() {}

From rustc --explain E0568 (1.99.0), part of the Rust project, MIT or Apache-2.0. Official page.

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