Go conversion between struct and byte array
I am writing a client - server application in Go. I want to perform C-like type casting in Go. E.g. in Go type packet struct { opcode uint16 data [1024]byte } var pkt1 packet ... n, raddr, err := conn.ReadFromUDP(pkt1) // error here Also I want to perform C-like memcpy(), which will allow me to directly map the network byte stream received to a struct. e.g. with above received pkt1 type file_info struct { file_size uint32 // 4 bytes file_name [1020]byte } var file file_info if (pkt1.opcode == WRITE) { memcpy(&file, pkt1.data, 1024) } unsafe.Pointer is, well, unsafe, and you don't actually need