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encoding/gob: document the extra byte after a singleton

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This paragraph has been added, as the notion was missing from the
documentation.

If a value is passed to Encode and the type is not a struct (or pointer to struct,
etc.), for simplicity of processing it is represented as a struct of one field.
The only visible effect of this is to encode a zero byte after the value, just as
after the last field of an encoded struct, so that the decode algorithm knows when
the top-level value is complete.

Fixes #16978

Change-Id: I5f008e792d1b6fe80d2e026a7ff716608889db32
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/38414
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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Rob Pike 2017-03-20 20:24:26 -07:00
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@ -175,6 +175,12 @@ the interface value. (A nil interface value is identified by the empty string
and transmits no value.) Upon receipt, the decoder verifies that the unpacked
concrete item satisfies the interface of the receiving variable.
If a value is passed to Encode and the type is not a struct (or pointer to struct,
etc.), for simplicity of processing it is represented as a struct of one field.
The only visible effect of this is to encode a zero byte after the value, just as
after the last field of an encoded struct, so that the decode algorithm knows when
the top-level value is complete.
The representation of types is described below. When a type is defined on a given
connection between an Encoder and Decoder, it is assigned a signed integer type
id. When Encoder.Encode(v) is called, it makes sure there is an id assigned for