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Using the zerocopy crate, we can port all header conversions from pointer cast to safe transmutes. After this change, the code in `header.rs` does not use `unsafe` anymore when the `zerocopy` feature is activated. Since this adds a derive crate without feature addition as dependency, zerocopy is an optional (but on-by-default) dependency.
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Using the zerocopy crate, we can port all header conversions from pointer cast to safe transmutes. After this change, the code in
header.rsdoes not useunsafeanymore when thezerocopyfeature is activated.Since this adds a derive crate without feature addition as dependency, zerocopy is an optional (but on-by-default) dependency.