Passive

This crate defines a trio of marker traits to classify types that fit some definitions of "plain old data", also known as "passive data structures".

The Trio

• AlwaysAligned represents types that are always aligned, in other words types whose alignment is of 1.
• AlwaysValid represents types for which all bit patterns are valid, e.g. u8 but not bool.
• Immutable represents types that don't provide any inner mutability.

Use the derive feature to safely derive implementations of those three traits.

Helper Types

The module packed provides a bunch of types representing packed integers, they are all always aligned, always valid, and immutable.

Licensing

This crate is licensed under both the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses, so you are free to do whatever you want with it as long as you respect the terms from these two.

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