Error code E0366

An attempt was made to implement Drop on a concrete specialization of a generic type. An example is shown below:

struct Foo<T> {
    t: T
}

impl Drop for Foo<u32> {
    fn drop(&mut self) {}
}
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This code is not legal: it is not possible to specialize Drop to a subset of implementations of a generic type. One workaround for this is to wrap the generic type, as shown below:

struct Foo<T> {
    t: T
}

struct Bar {
    t: Foo<u32>
}

impl Drop for Bar {
    fn drop(&mut self) {}
}
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