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Diffstat (limited to 'src/encoding/hex/hex.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/encoding/hex/hex.go | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/encoding/hex/hex.go b/src/encoding/hex/hex.go index 791d2bd4ad..ba9cc0f967 100644 --- a/src/encoding/hex/hex.go +++ b/src/encoding/hex/hex.go @@ -136,11 +136,9 @@ func EncodeToString(src []byte) string { // If the input is malformed, DecodeString returns // the bytes decoded before the error. func DecodeString(s string) ([]byte, error) { - src := []byte(s) - // We can use the source slice itself as the destination - // because the decode loop increments by one and then the 'seen' byte is not used anymore. - n, err := Decode(src, src) - return src[:n], err + dst := make([]byte, DecodedLen(len(s))) + n, err := Decode(dst, []byte(s)) + return dst[:n], err } // Dump returns a string that contains a hex dump of the given data. The format |