pub unsafe trait FromZeros {
// Provided methods
fn zero(&mut self) { ... }
fn new_zeroed() -> Self
where Self: Sized { ... }
}Expand description
Types for which a sequence of bytes all set to zero represents a valid instance of the type.
Any memory region of the appropriate length which is guaranteed to contain
only zero bytes can be viewed as any FromZeros type with no runtime
overhead. This is useful whenever memory is known to be in a zeroed state,
such memory returned from some allocation routines.
§Implementation
Do not implement this trait yourself! Instead, use
#[derive(FromZeros)] (requires the derive Cargo feature);
e.g.:
#[derive(FromZeros)]
struct MyStruct {
...
}
#[derive(FromZeros)]
#[repr(u8)]
enum MyEnum {
...
}
#[derive(FromZeros)]
union MyUnion {
...
}This derive performs a sophisticated, compile-time safety analysis to
determine whether a type is FromZeros.
§Safety
This section describes what is required in order for T: FromZeros, and
what unsafe code may assume of such types. If you don’t plan on implementing
FromZeros manually, and you don’t plan on writing unsafe code that
operates on FromZeros types, then you don’t need to read this section.
If T: FromZeros, then unsafe code may assume that it is sound to produce a
T whose bytes are all initialized to zero. If a type is marked as
FromZeros which violates this contract, it may cause undefined behavior.
#[derive(FromZeros)] only permits types which satisfy these
requirements.
Provided Methods§
sourcefn zero(&mut self)
fn zero(&mut self)
Overwrites self with zeros.
Sets every byte in self to 0. While this is similar to doing *self = Self::new_zeroed(), it differs in that zero does not semantically
drop the current value and replace it with a new one - it simply
modifies the bytes of the existing value.
§Examples
#[derive(FromZeros)]
#[repr(C)]
struct PacketHeader {
src_port: [u8; 2],
dst_port: [u8; 2],
length: [u8; 2],
checksum: [u8; 2],
}
let mut header = PacketHeader {
src_port: 100u16.to_be_bytes(),
dst_port: 200u16.to_be_bytes(),
length: 300u16.to_be_bytes(),
checksum: 400u16.to_be_bytes(),
};
header.zero();
assert_eq!(header.src_port, [0, 0]);
assert_eq!(header.dst_port, [0, 0]);
assert_eq!(header.length, [0, 0]);
assert_eq!(header.checksum, [0, 0]);sourcefn new_zeroed() -> Selfwhere
Self: Sized,
fn new_zeroed() -> Selfwhere
Self: Sized,
Creates an instance of Self from zeroed bytes.
§Examples
#[derive(FromZeros)]
#[repr(C)]
struct PacketHeader {
src_port: [u8; 2],
dst_port: [u8; 2],
length: [u8; 2],
checksum: [u8; 2],
}
let header: PacketHeader = FromZeros::new_zeroed();
assert_eq!(header.src_port, [0, 0]);
assert_eq!(header.dst_port, [0, 0]);
assert_eq!(header.length, [0, 0]);
assert_eq!(header.checksum, [0, 0]);