Struct-Codec

A Perl structure to bytes and back, with nothing lost: strings stay strings
and numbers stay numbers, the UTF-8 flag survives, a blessed referent comes
back blessed into the same class, and references that were shared or cyclic
are shared or cyclic again. Anything it cannot carry - code, globs, handles,
regexps, tied things - is refused with an error rather than stringified.

It also publishes a C ABI, so another XS module can encode a value straight
into memory it owns and decode one straight out, with no Perl frame between.
Shared::Arena's caches and maps are the first consumer.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

    perldoc Struct::Codec

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2026 by LNATION.

This is free software, licensed under the Artistic License 2.0.