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authorShenghou Ma <minux.ma@gmail.com>2012-10-26 21:14:34 +0800
committerShenghou Ma <minux.ma@gmail.com>2012-10-26 21:14:34 +0800
commitf9902c7197f436578e8fafa7946d8cd83467729e (patch)
treebd6246dbde1df79dd837bf48676d25151f326815 /src/pkg/encoding/binary
parent067315c647a8c973147bb53fb7a3483e99aa863e (diff)
downloadgo-f9902c7197f436578e8fafa7946d8cd83467729e.tar.xz
encoding/binary: ReadVarint reads a signed number, not unsigned number
R=golang-dev, iant CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/6762051
Diffstat (limited to 'src/pkg/encoding/binary')
-rw-r--r--src/pkg/encoding/binary/varint.go2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/binary/varint.go b/src/pkg/encoding/binary/varint.go
index 719018b603..7035529f27 100644
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/binary/varint.go
+++ b/src/pkg/encoding/binary/varint.go
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ func ReadUvarint(r io.ByteReader) (uint64, error) {
panic("unreachable")
}
-// ReadVarint reads an encoded unsigned integer from r and returns it as an int64.
+// ReadVarint reads an encoded signed integer from r and returns it as an int64.
func ReadVarint(r io.ByteReader) (int64, error) {
ux, err := ReadUvarint(r) // ok to continue in presence of error
x := int64(ux >> 1)