DevHacker Noonabout 2 hours ago
Rust Wrappers for Legacy C Libraries
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A DevOps engineer demonstrates wrapping a C packet parser in Rust using #[repr(C)], raw pointers, and the Drop trait. The safe Packet struct automatically calls free_packet on drop, preventing memory leaks. This enables incremental migration of critical infrastructure to Rust while retaining legacy logic.
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