As of 0.5 Abomonation doesn't automatically sanitize addresses in serialized data. This is mainly due to requiring random access to the post-serialized data, which means (roughly) a &mut [u8] interface to the written data, and not all W: Write provide this.
Instead, we could add back something like
pub fn sanitize<T: Abomonation>(bytes: &mut [u8])
which would treat bytes as a &T and erase the associated memory-address holding fields.
I'm not 100% certain what the right way to erase the fields is, as the packing of exciting discriminant information into such fields is recent sport for the Rust folks. It could just be pushing a 0x01 in there (what is used to be), but this could change at a moment's notice, I would guess.
As of 0.5 Abomonation doesn't automatically sanitize addresses in serialized data. This is mainly due to requiring random access to the post-serialized data, which means (roughly) a
&mut [u8]interface to the written data, and not allW: Writeprovide this.Instead, we could add back something like
which would treat
bytesas a&Tand erase the associated memory-address holding fields.I'm not 100% certain what the right way to erase the fields is, as the packing of exciting discriminant information into such fields is recent sport for the Rust folks. It could just be pushing a
0x01in there (what is used to be), but this could change at a moment's notice, I would guess.