34 lines
1.5 KiB
Go
34 lines
1.5 KiB
Go
// Copyright 2014 The go-ethereum Authors
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// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
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//
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// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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// (at your option) any later version.
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//
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// The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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//
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// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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/*
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Package rlp implements the RLP serialization format.
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The purpose of RLP (Recursive Linear Prefix) qis to encode arbitrarily
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nested arrays of binary data, and RLP is the main encoding method used
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to serialize objects in Ethereum. The only purpose of RLP is to encode
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structure; encoding specific atomic data types (eg. strings, ints,
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floats) is left up to higher-order protocols; in Ethereum integers
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must be represented in big endian binary form with no leading zeroes
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(thus making the integer value zero be equivalent to the empty byte
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array).
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RLP values are distinguished by a type tag. The type tag precedes the
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value in the input stream and defines the size and kind of the bytes
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that follow.
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*/
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package rlp
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