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+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package gob
+
+import "fmt"
+
+// Errors in decoding and encoding are handled using panic and recover.
+// Panics caused by user error (that is, everything except run-time panics
+// such as "index out of bounds" errors) do not leave the file that caused
+// them, but are instead turned into plain error returns.  Encoding and
+// decoding functions and methods that do not return an error either use
+// panic to report an error or are guaranteed error-free.
+
+// A gobError is used to distinguish errors (panics) generated in this package.
+type gobError struct {
+	err error
+}
+
+// errorf is like error_ but takes Printf-style arguments to construct an error.
+// It always prefixes the message with "gob: ".
+func errorf(format string, args ...interface{}) {
+	error_(fmt.Errorf("gob: "+format, args...))
+}
+
+// error wraps the argument error and uses it as the argument to panic.
+func error_(err error) {
+	panic(gobError{err})
+}
+
+// catchError is meant to be used as a deferred function to turn a panic(gobError) into a
+// plain error.  It overwrites the error return of the function that deferred its call.
+func catchError(err *error) {
+	if e := recover(); e != nil {
+		ge, ok := e.(gobError)
+		if !ok {
+			panic(e)
+		}
+		*err = ge.err
+	}
+	return
+}