Implement concat_bytes!

The tracking issue for this is rust-lang#87555.

Author: syvb

core/src/macros/mod.rs

@@ -967,6 +967,34 @@ pub(crate) mod builtin {
         ($($e:ident),+ $(,)?) => {{ /* compiler built-in */ }};
     }
 
+    /// Concatenates literals into a byte slice.
+    ///
+    /// This macro takes any number of comma-separated literals, and concatenates them all into
+    /// one, yielding an expression of type `&[u8, _]`, which represents all of the literals
+    /// concatenated left-to-right. The literals passed can be any combination of:
+    ///
+    /// - byte literals (`b'r'`)
+    /// - byte strings (`b"Rust"`)
+    /// - arrays of bytes/numbers (`[b'A', 66, b'C']`)
+    ///
+    /// # Examples
+    ///
+    /// ```
+    /// #![feature(concat_bytes)]
+    ///
+    /// # fn main() {
+    /// let s: &[u8; 6] = concat_bytes!(b'A', b"BC", [68, b'E', 70]);
+    /// assert_eq!(s, b"ABCDEF");
+    /// # }
+    /// ```
+    #[cfg(not(bootstrap))]
+    #[unstable(feature = "concat_bytes", issue = "87555")]
+    #[rustc_builtin_macro]
+    #[macro_export]
+    macro_rules! concat_bytes {
+        ($($e:literal),+ $(,)?) => {{ /* compiler built-in */ }};
+    }
+
     /// Concatenates literals into a static string slice.
     ///
     /// This macro takes any number of comma-separated literals, yielding an

core/src/prelude/v1.rs

@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ pub use crate::{
     option_env, stringify, trace_macros,
 };
 
+#[unstable(
+    feature = "concat_bytes",
+    issue = "87555",
+    reason = "`concat_bytes` is not stable enough for use and is subject to change"
+)]
+#[cfg(not(bootstrap))]
+#[doc(no_inline)]
+pub use crate::concat_bytes;
+
 #[unstable(
     feature = "asm",
     issue = "72016",

std/src/lib.rs

@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@
 #![feature(cfg_target_thread_local)]
 #![feature(char_error_internals)]
 #![feature(char_internals)]
+#![cfg_attr(not(bootstrap), feature(concat_bytes))]
 #![feature(concat_idents)]
 #![feature(const_cstr_unchecked)]
 #![feature(const_fn_floating_point_arithmetic)]
@@ -576,6 +577,14 @@ pub use core::{
     log_syntax, module_path, option_env, stringify, trace_macros,
 };
 
+#[unstable(
+    feature = "concat_bytes",
+    issue = "87555",
+    reason = "`concat_bytes` is not stable enough for use and is subject to change"
+)]
+#[cfg(not(bootstrap))]
+pub use core::concat_bytes;
+
 #[stable(feature = "core_primitive", since = "1.43.0")]
 pub use core::primitive;
 

std/src/prelude/v1.rs

@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ pub use core::prelude::v1::{
     PartialOrd,
 };
 
+#[unstable(
+    feature = "concat_bytes",
+    issue = "87555",
+    reason = "`concat_bytes` is not stable enough for use and is subject to change"
+)]
+#[cfg(not(bootstrap))]
+#[doc(no_inline)]
+pub use core::prelude::v1::concat_bytes;
+
 #[unstable(
     feature = "asm",
     issue = "72016",