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rlp: fix handling of single byte zero when decoding into a pointer 

A single zero byte carries information and should not set the pointer
to nil. This is arguably a corner case. While here, fix the comment
to explain pointer reuse.
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Felix Lange 2015-04-14 12:28:19 +02:00
parent 509d0a8d78
commit 6788f955c2
2 changed files with 6 additions and 6 deletions
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rlp/decode.go
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@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ type Decoder interface {
// DecodeRLP.
//
// To decode into a pointer, Decode will set the pointer to nil if the
// input has size zero or the input is a single byte with value zero.
// If the input has nonzero size, Decode will allocate a new value of
// the type being pointed to.
// input has size zero. If the input has nonzero size, Decode will
// parse the input data into a value of the type being pointed to.
// If the pointer is non-nil, the existing value will reused.
//
// To decode into a struct, Decode expects the input to be an RLP
// list. The decoded elements of the list are assigned to each public
@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ func makePtrDecoder(typ reflect.Type) (decoder, error) {
return nil, err
}
dec := func(s *Stream, val reflect.Value) (err error) {
_, size, err := s.Kind()
if err != nil || size == 0 && s.byteval == 0 {
kind, size, err := s.Kind()
if err != nil || size == 0 && kind != Byte {
// rearm s.Kind. This is important because the input
// position must advance to the next value even though
// we don't read anything.

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rlp/decode_test.go
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@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ var decodeTests = []decodeTest{
},
// pointers
{input: "00", ptr: new(*uint), value: (*uint)(nil)},
{input: "00", ptr: new(*uint), value: uintp(0)},
{input: "80", ptr: new(*uint), value: (*uint)(nil)},
{input: "C0", ptr: new(*uint), value: (*uint)(nil)},
{input: "07", ptr: new(*uint), value: uintp(7)},