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| author | snappy.mirrorbot@gmail.com <snappy.mirrorbot@gmail.com@03e5f5b5-db94-4691-08a0-1a8bf15f6143> | 2011-10-05 12:27:12 +0000 |
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| committer | snappy.mirrorbot@gmail.com <snappy.mirrorbot@gmail.com@03e5f5b5-db94-4691-08a0-1a8bf15f6143> | 2011-10-05 12:27:12 +0000 |
| commit | c5d21eae21d910911258018c185f74581f6de939 (patch) | |
| tree | 6955da26ede915b80bbfcdc696093ad03b328436 | |
| parent | c81fbe00bc3395a04093a3b393779a5c3de709a6 (diff) | |
| download | snappy-c5d21eae21d910911258018c185f74581f6de939.tar.gz | |
In the format description, use a clearer example to emphasize that varints are
stored in little-endian. Patch from Christian von Roques.
R=csilvers
git-svn-id: http://snappy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@51 03e5f5b5-db94-4691-08a0-1a8bf15f6143
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/format_description.txt b/format_description.txt index 43d7a98..20db66c 100644 --- a/format_description.txt +++ b/format_description.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Snappy compressed format description -Last revised: 2011-08-09 +Last revised: 2011-10-05 This is not a formal specification, but should suffice to explain most @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ The stream starts with the uncompressed length (up to a maximum of 2^32 - 1), stored as a little-endian varint. Varints consist of a series of bytes, where the lower 7 bits are data and the upper bit is set iff there are more bytes to be read. In other words, an uncompressed length of 64 would -be stored as 0x40, and an uncompressed length of 2097151 (0x1FFFFF) -would be stored as 0xFF 0xFF 0x7F. +be stored as 0x40, and an uncompressed length of 2097150 (0x1FFFFE) +would be stored as 0xFE 0xFF 0x7F. 2. The compressed stream itself |