From 74266d5bbd95ac07882b09230aec876bf7704f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Lange Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:31:48 +0100 Subject: rlp: new package for streaming RLP decoder --- rlp/doc.go | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 rlp/doc.go (limited to 'rlp/doc.go') diff --git a/rlp/doc.go b/rlp/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aab98ea43 --- /dev/null +++ b/rlp/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +/* +Package rlp implements the RLP serialization format. + +The purpose of RLP (Recursive Linear Prefix) qis to encode arbitrarily +nested arrays of binary data, and RLP is the main encoding method used +to serialize objects in Ethereum. The only purpose of RLP is to encode +structure; encoding specific atomic data types (eg. strings, ints, +floats) is left up to higher-order protocols; in Ethereum integers +must be represented in big endian binary form with no leading zeroes +(thus making the integer value zero be equivalent to the empty byte +array). + +RLP values are distinguished by a type tag. The type tag precedes the +value in the input stream and defines the size and kind of the bytes +that follow. +*/ +package rlp -- cgit v1.2.3