improve Pin documentation

[RalfJung]

Incorporates a bunch of the documentation-related comments that came up when discussing Pin stabilization.

Cc @alexcrichton @withoutboats @cramertj @jonhoo

Fixes #58130

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[Mark-Simulacrum]

This looks amazing! Thank you.

I think we may want to consider a beta backport as well if we can land this somewhat quickly so we ship these docs with the stabilization of Pin.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

This looks amazing! Thank you.

I think we may want to consider a beta backport as well if we can land this somewhat quickly so we ship these docs with the stabilization of Pin.

[jonhoo]

@RalfJung yup, looks better 👍

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[00:58:00] warning: `[Pin]` cannot be resolved, ignoring it...
[00:58:00]    --> src/libcore/marker.rs:605:61
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[00:58:00] 605 | /// by controlling the behavior of pointers wrapped in the [`Pin`] wrapper,
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[00:58:00] note: lint level defined here
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[00:58:19] error: `[Pin]` cannot be resolved, ignoring it...
[00:58:19]    --> /checkout/src/libcore/marker.rs:605:61
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[00:58:19] 605 | /// by controlling the behavior of pointers wrapped in the [`Pin`] wrapper,
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[00:58:19] note: lint level defined here
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[00:58:19] 209 | #![deny(intra_doc_link_resolution_failure)]
[00:58:19]     |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[00:58:19]     = help: to escape `[` and `]` characters, just add '\' before them like `\[` or `\]`
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[00:58:19] Caused by:
[00:58:19]   process didn't exit successfully: `/checkout/obj/build/bootstrap/debug/rustdoc --crate-name std src/libstd/lib.rs --color always --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -o /checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/doc --cfg 'feature="backtrace"' --cfg 'feature="backtrace-sys"' --cfg 'feature="compiler_builtins"' --cfg 'feature="compiler_builtins_c"' --cfg 'feature="default"' --cfg 'feature="panic-unwind"' --cfg 'feature="panic_unwind"' --cfg 'feature="std_detect_dlsym_getauxval"' --cfg 'feature="std_detect_file_io"' --markdown-css rust.css --markdown-no-toc --generate-redirect-pages --index-page /checkout/src/doc/index.md -L dependency=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps -L dependency=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/release/deps --extern alloc=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/liballoc-9e6c0311b71511c6.rmeta --extern backtrace_sys=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libbacktrace_sys-f13b165ed9b4dd57.rmeta --extern compiler_builtins=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libcompiler_builtins-d54fe968dea87029.rmeta --extern core=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libcore-84e5b9599b1b7754.rmeta --extern libc=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/liblibc-a69fda92b07aedd5.rmeta --extern panic_abort=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libpanic_abort-349a3e5cce9f18ee.rmeta --extern panic_unwind=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libpanic_unwind-d7c48504ff1056b6.rmeta --extern rustc_demangle=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/librustc_demangle-20814bca47e9a554.rmeta --extern rustc_asan=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/librustc_asan-8bc4c4bf1d4ec8f0.rmeta --extern rustc_lsan=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/librustc_lsan-0814373332ff833c.rmeta --extern rustc_msan=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/librustc_msan-655667bc8a1522d0.rmeta --extern rustc_tsan=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/librustc_tsan-5756fbda854daecf.rmeta --extern unwind=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libunwind-5e31c590860d0940.rmeta` (exit code: 1)
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[RalfJung]

All right, I think I resolved all comments. Let's land this! p=1 because we want to backport it.

@bors r=Mark-Simulacrum p=1

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📌 Commit 497439c has been approved by Mark-Simulacrum

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🌲 The tree is currently closed for pull requests below priority 99, this pull request will be tested once the tree is reopened

[Centril]

@bors p=30

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⌛️ Testing commit 497439c with merge c6fd027...

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☀️ Test successful - checks-travis, status-appveyor
Approved by: Mark-Simulacrum
Pushing c6fd027 to master...

[RalfJung]

@Mark-Simulacrum Do I have to do anything for the beta backport, or are you taking care of that?

[Mark-Simulacrum]

The release team will take care of it.