alt Hacker NewsIf you know you want bytes -- A void* of unknown provenance cast to anything other than char* is UB so just skip the middleman and use char*.
If you know you want bytes -- A void* of unknown provenance cast to anything other than char* is UB so just skip the middleman and use char*.
char* can also be a C-style string. std::byte has the same special treatment in the standard as char and unsigned char, with the added benefit of not being used for other purposes (i.e. ASCII character or uint8, respectively).