Most, even all of these, sound to me like cargo-culting. I certainly use multiple returns and continue statements all the time. I pass structs by value when I w

Most, even all of these, sound to me like cargo-culting. I certainly use multiple returns and continue statements all the time. I pass structs by value when I want to stress that they represent a value type that can / should be copied around (for example, a slice). As for the format to send data over a wire, I will either use the ntoh() / hton() macros, or move to a more standard binary format such as protobuffs. The only thing I don't usually run into is the very topic of this article: bit fields.