Remove bincode in Favor of postcard for Serialization #3315
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Description
This PR removes the use of the bincode crate from the concolic observer module and standardizes all serialization in LibAFL on the postcard crate.
Replaced all
bincode
usage inlibafl/src/observers/concolic
withpostcard
.Removed the
bincode
dependency fromlibafl/Cargo.toml
.This change improves consistency across the codebase and leverages postcard's no-std readiness and smaller output sizes.
Closes: #3273
NOTE: Besides converting from bincode to postcard,changes to libafl/src/observers/concolic/serialization_format.rs include:
Removed Unused Code:
Checklist
./scripts/precommit.sh
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