I'm new in C++. Recently I implemented Binary reader/writer for my multiplayer game. Now reading bytes looks like this: static int32_t readInt32(std::vector<uint8_t>& msg, int *off) { if ((*off) > msg.size()) return 0; int32_t result; int size = sizeof (result); memcpy(&result, msg.data() + (*off), size); (*off) += size; return result; } And writing byte's looks like this: static void writeInt32(std::vector<uint8_t>* msg, int32_t value) { uint8_t const * array = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t const *>(&value); for (std::size_t i = 0; i != sizeof(value); ++i) { (*msg).push_back(array[i]); } } How can I improve my Binary reader/writer?