Since all SSA values are immutable, no value copying is required for
any operations except those that load from or store to a variable;
those operations must do an aggregate copy, i.e., descend into struct
and array elements. All other calls to copyVal have been removed;
they were pieces of duct tape, as I had long suspected.
The descent must be based on the static type information, not the
"shape" of the dynamic value, since two reflect.Value structs may have
different internal shapes. We clobber the true definition of
reflect.Value's underlying type, replacing it with struct{interface{},
interface{}}, which is close enough to make the load/store functions
work.
+ Test
Change-Id: I5e239d91ed0cb2a669a9f75766024fe1f9a5c347
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/7532
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Rewrite performed with this command:
sed -i '' 's_code.google.com/p/go\._golang.org/x/_g' \
$(grep -lr 'code.google.com/p/go.' *)
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/170920043
This is (a) more efficient and (b) avoids the need for
constant error handling, since buffer writes can't fail.
Also:
- added WriteFunction and WritePackage functions,
similar to types.WriteFoo.
- *Function and *Package now implement io.WriterTo.
LGTM=gri
R=gri
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/57930044
Alan Donovan
Andrew Gerrand
Robert Griesemer