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 import Foundation
 
+/**
+# Control Byte
+Primary source of truth: [MaxMindDB Spec'](https://maxmind.github.io/MaxMind-DB/)
+## Data Field Format
+Each field starts with a control byte. This control byte provides information
+about the field's data type and payload size.
+
+The first three bits of the control byte tell you what type the field is. If
+these bits are all 0, then this is an "extended" type, which means that the
+*next* byte contains the actual type. Otherwise, the first three bits will
+contain a number from 1 to 7, the actual type for the field.
+
+We've tried to assign the most commonly used types as numbers 1-7 as an
+optimization.
+
+With an extended type, the type number in the second byte is the number
+minus 7. In other words, an array (type 11) will be stored with a 0 for the
+type in the first byte and a 4 in the second.
+
+Here is an example of how the control byte may combine with the next byte to
+tell us the type:
+
+    001XXXXX          pointer
+    010XXXXX          UTF-8 string
+    110XXXXX          unsigned 32-bit int (ASCII)
+    000XXXXX 00000011 unsigned 128-bit int (binary)
+    000XXXXX 00000100 array
+    000XXXXX 00000110 end marker
+
+### Payload Size
+
+The next five bits in the control byte tell you how long the data field's
+payload is, except for maps and pointers. Maps and pointers use this size
+information a bit differently. See below.
+
+If the five bits are smaller than 29, then those bits are the payload size in
+bytes. For example:
+
+    01000010          UTF-8 string - 2 bytes long
+    01011100          UTF-8 string - 28 bytes long
+    11000001          unsigned 32-bit int - 1 byte long
+    00000011 00000011 unsigned 128-bit int - 3 bytes long
+
+If the five bits are equal to 29, 30, or 31, then use the following algorithm
+to calculate the payload size.
+
+If the value is 29, then the size is 29 + *the next byte after the type
+specifying bytes as an unsigned integer*.
+
+If the value is 30, then the size is 285 + *the next two bytes after the type
+specifying bytes as a single unsigned integer*.
+
+If the value is 31, then the size is 65,821 + *the next three bytes after the
+type specifying bytes as a single unsigned integer*.
+
+Some examples:
+
+    01011101 00110011 UTF-8 string - 80 bytes long
+
+In this case, the last five bits of the control byte equal 29. We treat the
+next byte as an unsigned integer. The next byte is 51, so the total size is
+(29 + 51) = 80.
+
+    01011110 00110011 00110011 UTF-8 string - 13,392 bytes long
+
+The last five bits of the control byte equal 30. We treat the next two bytes
+as a single unsigned integer. The next two bytes equal 13,107, so the total
+size is (285 + 13,107) = 13,392.
+
+    01011111 00110011 00110011 00110011 UTF-8 string - 3,421,264 bytes long
+
+The last five bits of the control byte equal 31. We treat the next three bytes
+as a single unsigned integer. The next three bytes equal 3,355,443, so the
+total size is (65,821 + 3,355,443) = 3,421,264.
+
+This means that the maximum payload size for a single field is 16,843,036
+bytes.
+ */
 struct ControlByte {
 
   let type:        DataType