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Diffstat (limited to 'src/pkg/gob/doc.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pkg/gob/doc.go | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/gob/doc.go b/src/pkg/gob/doc.go index 35d882afb..05ebef195 100644 --- a/src/pkg/gob/doc.go +++ b/src/pkg/gob/doc.go @@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ the destination variable must be able to represent the value or the decode operation will fail. Structs, arrays and slices are also supported. Strings and arrays of bytes are -supported with a special, efficient representation (see below). +supported with a special, efficient representation (see below). When a slice is +decoded, if the existing slice has capacity the slice will be extended in place; +if not, a new array is allocated. Regardless, the length of the resuling slice +reports the number of elements decoded. Functions and channels cannot be sent in a gob. Attempting to encode a value that contains one will fail. @@ -221,6 +224,9 @@ In summary, a gob stream looks like where * signifies zero or more repetitions and the type id of a value must be predefined or be defined before the value in the stream. + +See "Gobs of data" for a design discussion of the gob wire format: +http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/gobs-of-data.html */ package gob |