[−][src]Crate zerocopy

Utilities for safe zero-copy parsing and serialization.

This crate provides utilities which make it easy to perform zero-copy parsing and serialization by allowing zero-copy conversion to/from byte slices.

This is enabled by three core marker traits:

FromBytes indicates that a type may safely be converted from an arbitrary byte sequence
AsBytes indicates that a type may safely be converted to a byte sequence
Unaligned indicates that a type's alignment requirement is 1

Types which implement a subset of these traits can then be converted to/from byte sequences with little to no runtime overhead.

Structs

A length- and alignment-checked reference to a byte slice which can safely be reinterpreted as another type.

AsBytes	Types which are safe to treat as an immutable byte slice.
ByteSlice	A mutable or immutable reference to a byte slice.
ByteSliceMut	A mutable reference to a byte slice.
FromBytes	Types for which any byte pattern is valid.
Unaligned	Types with no alignment requirement.