encoding/binary: error in reading bool

[lysevi]

go 1.4.2 windows7 x64

package main

import(
    "fmt"
    "bytes"
    "encoding/binary"
)

type Header struct {
    IsFull        bool
}

func main(){
    a:=make([]byte,1024,1024)
    for i:=0;i<1024;i++{
        a[i]=byte(i)
    }
    var pi Header
    buf := bytes.NewReader(a)
    err := binary.Read(buf, binary.LittleEndian, &pi)
    fmt.Println(err)    
}

result: "binary.Read: invalid type *main.Header"

but, if o change type of Header.IsFull from bool to byte or int8 (or something else int*), then all works done

[ianlancetaylor]

This is working as expected. The encoding/binary package, as the documentation says, "implements simple translation between numbers and byte sequences." The type bool is not a number.