The nice thing about this is you don't even need to read the lengths off the front of each item before you use them, since we already need to do that during the initial parse. That way the pointers are actually to the start of the string itself.
That sounds good to me! And if you want "raw" access, you can use the base & size items.
Do alignment issues matter if you're accessing struct members? I'm not sure what the alignment concern is?
Rob
