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Diffstat (limited to 'src/encoding/binary')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/encoding/binary/binary.go | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/encoding/binary/binary.go b/src/encoding/binary/binary.go index fd360a2e54..3834254596 100644 --- a/src/encoding/binary/binary.go +++ b/src/encoding/binary/binary.go @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ // // Numbers are translated by reading and writing fixed-size values. // A fixed-size value is either a fixed-size arithmetic -// type (int8, uint8, int16, float32, complex64, ...) +// type (bool, int8, uint8, int16, float32, complex64, ...) // or an array or struct containing only fixed-size values. // // The varint functions encode and decode single integer values using @@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ func (bigEndian) GoString() string { return "binary.BigEndian" } // of fixed-size values. // Bytes read from r are decoded using the specified byte order // and written to successive fields of the data. +// When decoding boolean values, a zero byte is decoded as false, and +// any other non-zero byte is decoded as true. // When reading into structs, the field data for fields with // blank (_) field names is skipped; i.e., blank field names // may be used for padding. @@ -249,6 +251,7 @@ func Read(r io.Reader, order ByteOrder, data interface{}) error { // Write writes the binary representation of data into w. // Data must be a fixed-size value or a slice of fixed-size // values, or a pointer to such data. +// Boolean values encode as one byte: 1 for true, and 0 for false. // Bytes written to w are encoded using the specified byte order // and read from successive fields of the data. // When writing structs, zero values are written for fields |