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0 pointspjc503mo ago0 comments

Sure, if your structure doesn't contain any pointers and you only ever want to support one endianness and you trust your compiler to fix the machine layout of the struct forever.

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zadikian3mo ago

Mainly the first thing. If your struct is already serial, of course serialization will be easy.

userbinator3mo ago

...which is true for 99.999% of the time anyway, so it's not worth worrying about.

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