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+// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package pkgbits implements low-level coding abstractions for
+// Unified IR's export data format.
+//
+// At a low-level, a package is a collection of bitstream elements.
+// Each element has a "kind" and a dense, non-negative index.
+// Elements can be randomly accessed given their kind and index.
+//
+// Individual elements are sequences of variable-length values (e.g.,
+// integers, booleans, strings, go/constant values, cross-references
+// to other elements). Package pkgbits provides APIs for encoding and
+// decoding these low-level values, but the details of mapping
+// higher-level Go constructs into elements is left to higher-level
+// abstractions.
+//
+// Elements may cross-reference each other with "relocations." For
+// example, an element representing a pointer type has a relocation
+// referring to the element type.
+//
+// Go constructs may be composed as a constellation of multiple
+// elements. For example, a declared function may have one element to
+// describe the object (e.g., its name, type, position), and a
+// separate element to describe its function body. This allows readers
+// some flexibility in efficiently seeking or re-reading data (e.g.,
+// inlining requires re-reading the function body for each inlined
+// call, without needing to re-read the object-level details).
+package pkgbits