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> "An interesting question you may ask in C++ is: “How would you declare a function that takes a blob of memory as input?”"

> "Now, suppose that you want to pass to this function a custom structure, like this:"

You would create another function that actually works based off that structure, rather than using your first function which operates on a set of bytes in memory. That way it's readable, like they want, and type-safe

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I find this to be a snarky non-answer. You really think everyone should write their own memcpy for every POD type they want to memcpy?
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