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Diffstat (limited to 'src/pkg/bytes/buffer.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pkg/bytes/buffer.go | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/bytes/buffer.go b/src/pkg/bytes/buffer.go index 7acddc4bc..6e5887cb0 100644 --- a/src/pkg/bytes/buffer.go +++ b/src/pkg/bytes/buffer.go @@ -42,8 +42,12 @@ func (b *Buffer) Bytes() []byte { } // String returns the contents of the unread portion of the buffer -// as a string. +// as a string. If the Buffer is a nil pointer, it returns "<nil>". func (b *Buffer) String() string { + if b == nil { + // Special case, useful in debugging. + return "<nil>" + } return string(b.buf[b.off : len(b.buf)]); } |