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| author | Rob Pike <r@golang.org> | 2015-11-24 10:32:37 -0800 |
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| committer | Rob Pike <r@golang.org> | 2015-11-24 19:06:11 +0000 |
| commit | b790ad5ac0c9f2cc20ded07162e539702b1b029f (patch) | |
| tree | 72cb8594d62e3b291a99cf92c4a361db661b2af6 /src/encoding/gob | |
| parent | 1d3e77607dcc15194f3e772dc5b58980798a6ea5 (diff) | |
| download | go-b790ad5ac0c9f2cc20ded07162e539702b1b029f.tar.gz go-b790ad5ac0c9f2cc20ded07162e539702b1b029f.zip | |
encoding/gob: document that zero elements of arrays and slices are sent
Fixes #13378
Change-Id: Ia78624ca1aa36ee906cef15416ea5554fa8229f2
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17201
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/encoding/gob')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/encoding/gob/doc.go | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/encoding/gob/doc.go b/src/encoding/gob/doc.go index 481c7572d9..18a91bd7ad 100644 --- a/src/encoding/gob/doc.go +++ b/src/encoding/gob/doc.go @@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Strings and slices of bytes are sent as an unsigned count followed by that many uninterpreted bytes of the value. All other slices and arrays are sent as an unsigned count followed by that many -elements using the standard gob encoding for their type, recursively. +elements using the standard gob encoding for their type, recursively. In slices +and arrays, elements with the zero value are transmitted. Maps are sent as an unsigned count followed by that many key, element pairs. Empty but non-nil maps are sent, so if the receiver has not allocated |