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The approach is:
Introduce a new trait called ZeroCopy, this is an unsafe trait which asserts that given a certain set of validations pass a type can be safely coerced into a referefence.
This trait can be implemented if a struct is marked
repr(C)
and implemented the reading, writing, and validation functions correctly. This can be done automatically through theZeroCopy
derive.Finally (but this has not been implemented yet) a ZeroCopy type will implement
Decode
, so that it can be transcoded from other types.Example of what support this adds: