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Diffstat (limited to 'libgo/go/encoding/binary/binary.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | libgo/go/encoding/binary/binary.go | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libgo/go/encoding/binary/binary.go b/libgo/go/encoding/binary/binary.go index 02f090d53f3..712e490e656 100644 --- a/libgo/go/encoding/binary/binary.go +++ b/libgo/go/encoding/binary/binary.go @@ -2,12 +2,17 @@ // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. -// Package binary implements translation between -// unsigned integer values and byte sequences -// and the reading and writing of fixed-size values. +// Package binary implements translation between numbers and byte sequences +// and encoding and decoding of varints. +// +// 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, ...) // or an array or struct containing only fixed-size values. +// +// Varints are a method of encoding integers using one or more bytes; +// numbers with smaller absolute value take a smaller number of bytes. +// For a specification, see http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/encoding.html. package binary import ( |