code review 174082: fix bug for large counts: used a one-byte buffer.

fix bug for large counts: used a one-byte buffer.

[r, 2009-12-12 19:57:30]

Hello rsc (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.org),

I'd like you to review the following change.

[rsc, 2009-12-12 20:19:06]

LGTM

[r, 2009-12-12 20:27:50]

*** Submitted as http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=491b7802d110 ***

fix bug for large counts: used a one-byte buffer.

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
http://codereview.appspot.com/174082

[cw, 2009-12-13 01:55:46]

> fix bug for large counts: used a one-byte buffer.

i'm curious --- why 9 now and not 8?

[r2, 2009-12-13 02:19:23]

On 13/12/2009, at 12:55 PM, cw@f00f.org wrote:

>> fix bug for large counts: used a one-byte buffer.
>
> i'm curious --- why 9 now and not 8?
>
>
> http://codereview.appspot.com/174082

the encoding used by gobs takes 9 bytes to represent an 8-byte integer.

-rob