aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorRob Pike <r@golang.org>2011-03-02 19:39:08 -0800
committerRob Pike <r@golang.org>2011-03-02 19:39:08 -0800
commit68add46af776369dbaade9eb1eb9de9bb0c7fec8 (patch)
tree7e366c68f374b970b330f1fce1d76cad37c90a2c
parentdaffc2d2ef1b68eae0a7e79d015fe33339f19534 (diff)
downloadgo-68add46af776369dbaade9eb1eb9de9bb0c7fec8.tar.gz
go-68add46af776369dbaade9eb1eb9de9bb0c7fec8.zip
unsafe: fix the documentation
Reflection is about Pointer, not uintptr. Also clarify that Reflect and Unreflect are indirect. R=rsc CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/4254052
-rw-r--r--src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go b/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go
index 3a4e30c00c..3cd4cff6e9 100644
--- a/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go
+++ b/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go
@@ -41,13 +41,14 @@ 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 uintptr)
+func Reflect(i interface{}) (typ interface{}, addr Pointer)
-// Unreflect inverts Reflect: Given a type and a pointer, it returns an empty interface value
-// with those contents. 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
+// 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 uintptr) (ret interface{})
+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.