Commit b43384e8 authored by Brad Fitzpatrick's avatar Brad Fitzpatrick

encoding/binary: document the new bool support

Updates #16856

Change-Id: I57af6b0c0d5ecdaf19cf6f969b05ec9ec03058f1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/33756Reviewed-by: default avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
parent 5dd4d6ed
......@@ -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
......
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