Module uefi::data_types

Data type definitions

This module defines the basic data types that are used throughout uefi-rs

Re-exports

pub use self::chars::Char16;

pub use self::chars::Char8;

Modules

chars

UEFI character handling

Structs

CStr8

A Latin-1 null-terminated string

CStr16

An UCS-2 null-terminated string

CString16

An owned UCS-2 null-terminated string.

Event

Handle to an event structure

Guid

A globally unique identifier

Handle

Opaque handle to an UEFI entity (protocol, image…), guaranteed to be non-null.

Enums

FromSliceWithNulError

Errors which can occur during checked [uN] -> CStrN conversions

FromStrError

Error returned by CString16::try_from::<&str>.

FromStrWithBufError

Error returned by CStr16::from_str_with_buf.

Traits

Align

Trait for querying the alignment of a struct

Identify

Several entities in the UEFI specification can be referred to by their GUID, this trait is a building block to interface them in uefi-rs.

Attribute Macros

unsafe_guid

unsafe_guid attribute macro, implements the Identify trait for any type (mostly works like a custom derive, but also supports type aliases)