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Uplift drop-bounds lint from clippy into rustc #347

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Proposal

Move the drop_bounds lint from clippy into the compiler. The lint would be warn by default, and fire when generic bounds require a type to implement Drop.

For instance, the following code

fn do_something<T: Drop>(_x: T) { }

would trigger the lint. This pattern is, as ExpHP put it, dangerous and wrong, as well as a common tripping point for newbies, so it would be ideal for the compiler to help prevent this particular footgun.

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I've performed this change on rust-lang/rust#75699 CC @petrochenkov

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