Add native support for serializing char arrays without FLATDATA

Support is added to serialize arrays of type char or unsigned char directly,
without any wrappers. All invocations of the FLATDATA wrappers that are
obsoleted by this are removed.

This includes a patch by Russell Yanofsky to make char casting type safe.

The serialization of CSubNet is changed to serialize a bool directly rather
than though FLATDATA. This makes the serialization independent of the size
of the bool type (and will use 1 byte everywhere).

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/serialize.h b/src/serialize.h
index 91da6b0f80..247e915298 100644
--- a/src/serialize.h
+++ b/src/serialize.h
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ inline T* NCONST_PTR(const T* val)
     return const_cast<T*>(val);
 }
 
+//! Safely convert odd char pointer types to standard ones.
+inline char* CharCast(char* c) { return c; }
+inline char* CharCast(unsigned char* c) { return (char*)c; }
+inline const char* CharCast(const char* c) { return c; }
+inline const char* CharCast(const unsigned char* c) { return (const char*)c; }
+
 /*
  * Lowest-level serialization and conversion.
  * @note Sizes of these types are verified in the tests
@@ -177,6 +183,8 @@ template<typename Stream> inline void Serialize(Stream& s, int64_t a ) { ser_wri
 template<typename Stream> inline void Serialize(Stream& s, uint64_t a) { ser_writedata64(s, a); }
 template<typename Stream> inline void Serialize(Stream& s, float a   ) { ser_writedata32(s, ser_float_to_uint32(a)); }
 template<typename Stream> inline void Serialize(Stream& s, double a  ) { ser_writedata64(s, ser_double_to_uint64(a)); }
+template<typename Stream, int N> inline void Serialize(Stream& s, const char (&a)[N]) { s.write(a, N); }
+template<typename Stream, int N> inline void Serialize(Stream& s, const unsigned char (&a)[N]) { s.write(CharCast(a), N); }
 
 template<typename Stream> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, char& a    ) { a = ser_readdata8(s); } // TODO Get rid of bare char
 template<typename Stream> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, int8_t& a  ) { a = ser_readdata8(s); }
@@ -189,6 +197,8 @@ template<typename Stream> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, int64_t& a ) { a =
 template<typename Stream> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, uint64_t& a) { a = ser_readdata64(s); }
 template<typename Stream> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, float& a   ) { a = ser_uint32_to_float(ser_readdata32(s)); }
 template<typename Stream> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, double& a  ) { a = ser_uint64_to_double(ser_readdata64(s)); }
+template<typename Stream, int N> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, char (&a)[N]) { s.read(a, N); }
+template<typename Stream, int N> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, unsigned char (&a)[N]) { s.read(CharCast(a), N); }
 
 template<typename Stream> inline void Serialize(Stream& s, bool a)    { char f=a; ser_writedata8(s, f); }
 template<typename Stream> inline void Unserialize(Stream& s, bool& a) { char f=ser_readdata8(s); a=f; }