Bytification for Rust

This little macro is able to perform some trivial conversions over arbitrary sequences of literal values, generating a continuous byte array at the compile time.

List of supported literals:

• UTF-8 characters ('?') as well as UTF-8 strings ("こんにちは世界").
• Integers, also negative and size-suffixed (-99u32).
  • Non-suffixed numbers are written in a form as small as possible.
  • The little endian is used as a default endianness but could be changed build-wise by enabling default-big-endian feature.
  • It is possible to set endianness for a single literal using the "ascription" syntax, e.g. 9000: LE or 0x8u32: be.
• IEEE 754 floating point numbers, also negative and size-suffixed (-3.1415926f64).
  • Non-suffixed numbers are written in a form as small as possible.
  • The little endian is used as a default endianness but could be changed build-wise by enabling default-big-endian feature.
  • It is possible to set endianness for a single literal using the "ascription" syntax, e.g. 0.22: LE or -10f64: be.

Examples

``` use bytify::bytify;

fn main() { assert_eq!(&bytify!( "The 🎂 is a lie!", 2948509150, -559038801: BE, 0.36658e+8, -2583.1f64: le, )[..], &[ b'T', b'h', b'e', b' ', 0xF0, 0x9F, 0x8E, 0x82, b' ', b'i', b's', b' ', b'a', b' ', b'l', b'i', b'e', b'!', 0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xAF, 0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xAF, 0xD4, 0xD6, 0x0B, 0x4C, 0x33, 0x33, 0x33, 0x33, 0x33, 0x2e, 0xa4, 0xc0, ][..]); } ```

Notes

While proc_macro2 is on its way to stabilization, proc-macro-hack is used instead to bring this macro to stable Rust.