I'm in an identity-mapped memory context (UEFI on x86_64 platform) and I want to dump some contiguous memory content into a structure. Say my structure has this shape:
typedef struct _mystr {
char char_arr[7];
uint32_t u_d;
uint8_t u_b;
} __attribute__((packed)) mystr;
Supposing I have in mem_ptr
the address to the requested memory's offset 0, what's the best way to copy its content into a mystr
instance? Is there a way to do that without iterating through memory with a loop (which seems super boring)?
EDIT: Nicolas Jean suggested the use of memcpy
but unfortunately in an EFI
developing context the use of a C standard library makes little sense. However, efilib.h
from gnu-efi
has CopyMem(IN VOID * dst, IN CONST VOID * src, IN UINTN len)
which carries out the same task.