byte-slice-cast

Changed

• Fix tests for Rust 1.81.
• Declare Rust 1.51 as MSRV.

Changed

• Fix a couple of clippy warnings in the tests.

Changed

• Make trait methods #[inline]. This allows the compiler to make the call a no-op in many cases.

Added

• Trait impls for converting between &[[T; N]] and &[u8] for specific T.

Added

• ToByteSlice and ToMutByteSlice impl for &[()]. This always produces an empty byte slice.

Removed

• Support for casting between Vec<T> and Vec<u8>. This was actually unsound as the alloc trait requires that memory is deallocated with exactly the same alignment as it was allocated with.

Fixed

• usize tests on 16/32 bit architectures.

Changed

• Various documentation improvements.

Changed

• Improve documentation and examples

Fixed

• Fix running of tests on 16/32 bit architectures

Added

• Support for casting between Vec<T> and Vec<u8>

Added

• Support for usize and isize

Changed

• Add no_std support
• Migrate to 2018 edition

Fixed

• Casting of empty slices works correctly now instead of failing with an alignment mismatch error.

Added

• The Error type now implements Clone.

Changed

• AsByteSlice::as_byte_slice and ToByteSlice::to_byte_slice were changed to always return &[u8] instead of Result<&[u8], Error>.
• AsMutByteSlice::as_mut_byte_slice and ToMutByteSlice::to_mut_byte_slice were changed to always return &mut [u8] instead of Result<&mut [u8], Error>.
• The Display impl for Error now produces more detailed error messages.
• The variants of the Error enum were renamed.

Changed

• Major refactoring of how the traits work. It is now possible to work directly on AsRef<[T]> and AsMut<[T]>, e.g. on Vec<T> and Box<[T]>.

Added

• Trait impls for i128 and u128.

• Initial release of the byte-slice-cast crate.