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Diffstat (limited to 'src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go b/src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go index 04f706ca5..3a769ec12 100644 --- a/src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go +++ b/src/pkg/encoding/gob/decoder.go @@ -183,11 +183,13 @@ func (dec *Decoder) decodeTypeSequence(isInterface bool) typeId { return -1 } -// Decode reads the next value from the connection and stores +// Decode reads the next value from the input stream and stores // it in the data represented by the empty interface value. // If e is nil, the value will be discarded. Otherwise, // the value underlying e must be a pointer to the // correct type for the next data item received. +// If the input is at EOF, Decode returns io.EOF and +// does not modify e. func (dec *Decoder) Decode(e interface{}) error { if e == nil { return dec.DecodeValue(reflect.Value{}) @@ -202,10 +204,12 @@ func (dec *Decoder) Decode(e interface{}) error { return dec.DecodeValue(value) } -// DecodeValue reads the next value from the connection. +// DecodeValue reads the next value from the input stream. // If v is the zero reflect.Value (v.Kind() == Invalid), DecodeValue discards the value. // Otherwise, it stores the value into v. In that case, v must represent // a non-nil pointer to data or be an assignable reflect.Value (v.CanSet()) +// If the input is at EOF, DecodeValue returns io.EOF and +// does not modify e. func (dec *Decoder) DecodeValue(v reflect.Value) error { if v.IsValid() { if v.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && !v.IsNil() { |