Simplify core vs std usage #836
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Right now,
src/lib.rsdefines ring to be ano_stdcrate conditionally based on the features and CPU architecture. This is sub-optimal, as it requires a lot ofcfgattributes to be kept in sync. Bothrandandrdrandhave dealt with this kind of problem, and they use the following solution.#![no_std]stdis needed, it can be brought in withextern crate stduse stdoruse corestatements (as they are never necessary)This is what I did in this PR. Some advantages to this PR:
std. This helps with:no_std-only platform #744no_stdextern crate alloclands in the next stable Rust release, most of theuse std::statements can be turned intouse alloc::.use_heapfeature into two featuresstd: Enables getting randomness from files andstd::error::Errorimplementationsalloc: Enables operations that need dynamic memory allocation (RSA signing, etc...)