Function EncodePOD

be/src/gutil/strings/serialize.h:178–184

// in place of:
//   string s = EncodeUint32(static_cast<uint32>(i));
template <typename T> inline string EncodePOD(const T& value) {
  ENFORCE_POD(T);
  string s;
  STLStringResizeUninitialized(&s, sizeof(T));
  memcpy(string_as_array(&s), &value, sizeof(T));
  return s;
}

// Retrieves the bytes of a plain old data type value from a StringPiece.
// Verifies the given data type is a POD and copies the bytes of the