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base16 (hex) encoding and decoding
Last release 7 years ago
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8 years old
5 releases · first in 2018
Make code more bulletproof in the case of panics when using the decode_buf or encode_config_buf functions.
decode_buf or encode_config_buf functions.Make code more bulletproof in the case of panics when using the decode_buf
or encode_config_buf functions.
Previously, if the innermost encode/decode function paniced, code that inspected the contents of the Vec (either in a Drop implementation, or by catching the panic) could read from uninitialized memory.
However, I don't believe it is possible for the innermost encode/decode functions to panic, so I don't think there was any risk in previous versions.
I don't believe the panic is possible because only two panics exist in the generated assembly (both only in debug configuration, and not in release). The two panics are respectively:
a debug_assert verifying the caller performed a check (which it does).
a usize overflow check on an index variable, which is impossible as we've already tested for that.
That said, this is some powerful rationalization, so I'm cutting a new version with this fix anyway.
Additionally, several functions that previously used unsafe internally now either use less unsafe, or are entirely safe.
One column per quarter.
encode_byte now returns [u8; 2] instead of (u8, u8) , as in practice this tends to be more convenient.
encode_byte now returns [u8; 2] instead of (u8, u8), as in practice this tends to be more convenient.std which requires the alloc trait has been split into the alloc feature.base16 has been relicensed as CC0-1.0 from dual MIT/Apache-2.0.Nothing published for this version
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