Function copyWords

pkg/util/encoding/decimal.go:745–762

copyWords was adapted from math/big/nat.go. It writes the value of nat into buf using big-endian encoding. len(buf) must be >= len(nat)*bigWordSize.

(buf []byte, nat []big.Word)

// copyWords was adapted from math/big/nat.go. It writes the value of
// nat into buf using big-endian encoding. len(buf) must be >= len(nat)*bigWordSize.
func copyWords(buf []byte, nat []big.Word) []byte {
	// Omit leading zeros from the resulting byte slice, which is both
	// safe and exactly what big.Int.Bytes() does. See big.nat.setBytes()
	// and big.nat.norm() for how this is normalized on decoding.
	leading := true
	for w := len(nat) - 1; w >= 0; w-- {
		d := nat[w]
		for j := bigWordSize - 1; j >= 0; j-- {
			by := byte(d >> (8 * big.Word(j)))
			if by == 0 && leading {
				continue
			}
			leading = false
			buf = append(buf, by)
		}
	}
	return buf
}