Merge #20464: refactor: Treat CDataStream bytes as uint8_t

fa292724598c273867bc6dbf311f1440fe2541ba Remove redundant MakeUCharSpan wrappers (MarcoFalke)
faf4aa2f47c0de4f3a0c5f5fe5b3ec32f611eefd Remove CDataStream::Init in favor of C++11 member initialization (MarcoFalke)
fada14b948cac147198e3b685b5dd8cb72dc2911 Treat CDataStream bytes as uint8_t (MarcoFalke)
fa8bdb048e65cae2d26bea3f991717a856e2fb39 refactor: Drop CDataStream constructors in favor of one taking a Span of bytes (MarcoFalke)
faa96f841fe45bc49ebb6e07ac82a129fa9c40bf Remove unused CDataStream methods (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  Using `uint8_t` for raw bytes has a style benefit:
  * The signedness is clear from reading the code, as it does not depend on the architecture

  Other clean-ups in this pull include:
  * Remove unused methods
  * Constructor is simplified with `Span`
  * Remove `Init()` member in favor of C++11 member initialization

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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/support/allocators/zeroafterfree.h b/src/support/allocators/zeroafterfree.h
index c7ed5ef308..418f0ee656 100644
--- a/src/support/allocators/zeroafterfree.h
+++ b/src/support/allocators/zeroafterfree.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct zero_after_free_allocator : public std::allocator<T> {
     }
 };
 
-// Byte-vector that clears its contents before deletion.
-typedef std::vector<char, zero_after_free_allocator<char> > CSerializeData;
+/** Byte-vector that clears its contents before deletion. */
+using SerializeData = std::vector<uint8_t, zero_after_free_allocator<uint8_t>>;
 
 #endif // BITCOIN_SUPPORT_ALLOCATORS_ZEROAFTERFREE_H