Rollup merge of #30914 - tshepang:easier-description, r=steveklabnik

This function returns the size on the stack, not that of the value
that may be allocated on the heap.

Author: steveklabnik

src/libcore/mem.rs

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ pub fn size_of<T>() -> usize {
     unsafe { intrinsics::size_of::<T>() }
 }
 
-/// Returns the size of the type that `val` points to in bytes.
+/// Returns the size of the given value in bytes.
 ///
 /// # Examples
 ///