Module try_get_fixed

Extends the bytes crate with functions to read fixed-length numbers wrapped in buffer underflow checks. This is often useful when working with variable-length encoded buffers.

This is in a separate module to make it easy to ignore when it is not needed.

Traits

TryGetFixedSupport

When working with variable-length encodings for numbers, the buffers themselves become variable length, and it is impossible to check that they are long enough before decoding them. Fixed-length buffer layouts have obvious benefits, but if some protocol uses var-length encoding, buffer underflow can occur even when reading fixed-length numbers.