On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM Alexandre Courbot <acour...@nvidia.com> wrote: > > `FromBytes::from_bytes` comes with a few practical limitations: > > - It requires the bytes slice to have the same alignment as the returned > type, which might not be guaranteed in the case of a byte stream, > - It returns a reference, requiring the returned type to implement > `Clone` if one wants to keep the value for longer than the lifetime of > the slice. > > To overcome these when needed, add a `from_bytes_copy` with a default > implementation in the trait. `from_bytes_copy` returns an owned value > that is populated using an unaligned read, removing the lifetime > constraint and making it usable even on non-aligned byte slices. > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acour...@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <alicer...@google.com>
