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author | Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> | 2011-09-13 13:13:40 +0200 |
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committer | Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> | 2011-09-13 13:13:40 +0200 |
commit | 5ff4c17907d5b19510a62e08fd8d3b11e62b431d (patch) | |
tree | c0650497e988f47be9c6f2324fa692a52dea82e1 /src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go | |
parent | 80f18fc933cf3f3e829c5455a1023d69f7b86e52 (diff) | |
download | golang-5ff4c17907d5b19510a62e08fd8d3b11e62b431d.tar.gz |
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diff --git a/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go b/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a1257066e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +// Copyright 2009 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 unsafe contains operations that step around the type safety of Go programs. +*/ +package unsafe + +// ArbitraryType is here for the purposes of documentation only and is not actually +// part of the unsafe package. It represents the type of an arbitrary Go expression. +type ArbitraryType int + +// Pointer represents a pointer to an arbitrary type. There are three special operations +// available for type Pointer that are not available for other types. +// 1) A pointer value of any type can be converted to a Pointer. +// 2) A Pointer can be converted to a pointer value of any type. +// 3) A uintptr can be converted to a Pointer. +// 4) A Pointer can be converted to a uintptr. +// Pointer therefore allows a program to defeat the type system and read and write +// arbitrary memory. It should be used with extreme care. +type Pointer *ArbitraryType + +// Sizeof returns the size in bytes occupied by the value v. The size is that of the +// "top level" of the value only. For instance, if v is a slice, it returns the size of +// the slice descriptor, not the size of the memory referenced by the slice. +func Sizeof(v ArbitraryType) int + +// Offsetof returns the offset within the struct of the field represented by v, +// which must be of the form struct_value.field. In other words, it returns the +// number of bytes between the start of the struct and the start of the field. +func Offsetof(v ArbitraryType) int + +// Alignof returns the alignment of the value v. It is the maximum value m such +// that the address of a variable with the type of v will always always be zero mod m. +// If v is of the form obj.f, it returns the alignment of field f within struct object obj. +func Alignof(v ArbitraryType) int + +// Typeof returns the type of an interface value, a runtime.Type. +func Typeof(i interface{}) (typ interface{}) + +// Reflect unpacks an interface value into its type and the address of a copy of the +// internal value. +func Reflect(i interface{}) (typ interface{}, addr Pointer) + +// Unreflect inverts Reflect: Given a type and a pointer to a value, it returns an +// empty interface value with contents the type and the value (not the pointer to +// the value). The typ is assumed to contain a pointer to a runtime type; the type +// information in the interface{} is ignored, so that, for example, both +// *reflect.structType and *runtime.StructType can be passed for typ. +func Unreflect(typ interface{}, addr Pointer) (ret interface{}) + +// New allocates and returns a pointer to memory for a new value of the given type. +// The typ is assumed to hold a pointer to a runtime type. +// Callers should use reflect.MakeZero instead of invoking unsafe.New directly. +func New(typ interface{}) Pointer + +// NewArray allocates and returns a pointer to an array of n elements of the given type. +// The typ is assumed to hold a pointer to a runtime type. +// Callers should use reflect.MakeSlice instead of invoking unsafe.NewArray directly. +func NewArray(typ interface{}, n int) Pointer |