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Diffstat (limited to 'ethutil/bytes.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | ethutil/bytes.go | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ethutil/bytes.go b/ethutil/bytes.go index 40903a5f1..957fa254a 100644 --- a/ethutil/bytes.go +++ b/ethutil/bytes.go @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ import ( "fmt" ) +// Number to bytes +// +// Returns the number in bytes with the specified base func NumberToBytes(num interface{}, bits int) []byte { buf := new(bytes.Buffer) err := binary.Write(buf, binary.BigEndian, num) @@ -16,6 +19,9 @@ func NumberToBytes(num interface{}, bits int) []byte { return buf.Bytes()[buf.Len()-(bits/8):] } +// Bytes to number +// +// Attempts to cast a byte slice to a unsigned integer func BytesToNumber(b []byte) uint64 { var number uint64 @@ -32,7 +38,9 @@ func BytesToNumber(b []byte) uint64 { return number } -// Read variable integer in big endian +// Read variable int +// +// Read a variable length number in big endian byte order func ReadVarint(reader *bytes.Reader) (ret uint64) { if reader.Len() == 8 { var num uint64 @@ -55,6 +63,9 @@ func ReadVarint(reader *bytes.Reader) (ret uint64) { return ret } +// Binary length +// +// Returns the true binary length of the given number func BinaryLength(num int) int { if num == 0 { return 0 |