A simple iterator for packing/unpacking primitive c types to/from a provided buffer.
/* A buffer to store packed data */ uint8_t buf[6]; /* Construct a new writer cursor with the buffer we just defined */ struct cursor_wtr wtr = cursor_wtr_new(buf, sizeof(buf)); uint16_t written_u16 = 0x0123; uint32_t written_u32 = 0x456789AB; /* Write written_u16 to buf little-endian */ cursor_pack_le_u16(&wtr, written_u16); /* Write written_u32 to buf big-endian */ cursor_pack_be_u32(&wtr, written_u32); /* Construct a reader cursor */ struct cursor_rdr rdr = cursor_rdr_new(buf, sizeof(buf)); uint16_t read_u16 = 0; uint32_t read_u32 = 0; /* Read a packed little-endian uint16_t out of buf */ cursor_unpack_le_u16(&rdr, &read_u16); /* Read a packed big-endian uint32_t out of buf */ cursor_unpack_be_u32(&rdr, &read_u32); assert(read_u16 == written_u16); assert(read_u32 == written_u32);
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