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| -rw-r--r-- | src/pkg/gob/encoder.go | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/gob/encoder.go b/src/pkg/gob/encoder.go index 1a401eb1c..3d8f3928c 100644 --- a/src/pkg/gob/encoder.go +++ b/src/pkg/gob/encoder.go @@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ The rest of this comment documents the encoding, details that are not important for most users. Details are presented bottom-up. - An unsigned integer is encoded as an arbitrary-precision, variable-length sequence - of bytes. It is sent in little-endian order (low bits first), with seven bits per - byte. The high bit of each byte is zero, except that the high bit of the final - (highest precision) byte of the encoding will be set. Thus 0 is transmitted as - (80), 7 is transmitted as (87) and 256=2*128 is transmitted as (00 82). + An unsigned integer is sent one of two ways. If it is less than 128, it is sent + as a byte with that value. Otherwise it is sent as a minimal-length big-endian + (high byte first) byte stream holding the value, preceded by one byte holding the + byte count, negated. Thus 0 is transmitted as (00), 7 is transmitted as (07) and + 256 is transmitted as (FE 01 00). A boolean is encoded within an unsigned integer: 0 for false, 1 for true. |