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fa292724598c273867bc6dbf311f1440fe2541ba Remove redundant MakeUCharSpan wrappers (MarcoFalke)
faf4aa2f47c0de4f3a0c5f5fe5b3ec32f611eefd Remove CDataStream::Init in favor of C++11 member initialization (MarcoFalke)
fada14b948cac147198e3b685b5dd8cb72dc2911 Treat CDataStream bytes as uint8_t (MarcoFalke)
fa8bdb048e65cae2d26bea3f991717a856e2fb39 refactor: Drop CDataStream constructors in favor of one taking a Span of bytes (MarcoFalke)
faa96f841fe45bc49ebb6e07ac82a129fa9c40bf Remove unused CDataStream methods (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Using `uint8_t` for raw bytes has a style benefit:
* The signedness is clear from reading the code, as it does not depend on the architecture
Other clean-ups in this pull include:
* Remove unused methods
* Constructor is simplified with `Span`
* Remove `Init()` member in favor of C++11 member initialization
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