-// Copyright 2012 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// Copyright 2012-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
//
use unstable::intrinsics;
use unstable::intrinsics::{bswap16, bswap32, bswap64};
-/// Returns the size of a type
+/// Returns the size of a type in bytes.
#[inline]
pub fn size_of<T>() -> uint {
unsafe { intrinsics::size_of::<T>() }
}
-/// Returns the size of the type that `_val` points to
+/// Returns the size of the type that `_val` points to in bytes.
#[inline]
pub fn size_of_val<T>(_val: &T) -> uint {
size_of::<T>()
}
-/// Returns the size of a type, or 1 if the actual size is zero.
+/// Returns the size of a type in bytes, or 1 if the actual size is zero.
///
/// Useful for building structures containing variable-length arrays.
#[inline]
if s == 0 { 1 } else { s }
}
-/// Returns the size of the type of the value that `_val` points to
+/// Returns the size in bytes of the type of the value that `_val` points to.
#[inline]
pub fn nonzero_size_of_val<T>(_val: &T) -> uint {
nonzero_size_of::<T>()