Re: [PATCH RESEND] rust: transmute: add `from_bytes_prefix` family of methods

[Alice Ryhl]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 10:41:21PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> The `from_bytes*` family of functions expect a slice of the exact same
> size as the requested type. This can be sometimes cumbersome for callers
> that deal with dynamic stream of data that needs to be manually cut
> before each invocation of `from_bytes`.
> 
> To simplify such callers, introduce a new `from_bytes*_prefix` family of
> methods, which split the input slice at the index required for the
> equivalent `from_bytes` method to succeed, and return its result
> alongside with the remainder of the slice.
> 
> This design is inspired by zerocopy's `try_*_from_prefix` family of
> methods.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>