cmd/compile: unique LinkString for renamed, embedded fields

Using type aliases, it's possible to create structs with embedded
fields that have no corresponding type literal notation. However, we
still need to generate a unique name for these types to use for linker
symbols. This CL introduces a new "struct{ Name = Type }" syntax for
use in LinkString formatting to represent these types.

Fixes #50190.

Change-Id: I025ceb09a86e00b7583d3b9885d612f5d6cb44fe
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/372914
Run-TryBot: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
Trust: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dan Scales <danscales@google.com>
Trust: Dan Scales <danscales@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Cuong Manh Le <cuong.manhle.vn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/types/fmt.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/types/fmt.go
index 3198a1f53c..1399483424 100644
--- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/types/fmt.go
+++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/types/fmt.go
@@ -631,6 +631,7 @@ func fldconv(b *bytes.Buffer, f *Field, verb rune, mode fmtMode, visited map[*Ty
 	}
 
 	var name string
+	nameSep := " "
 	if verb != 'S' {
 		s := f.Sym
 
@@ -639,9 +640,41 @@ func fldconv(b *bytes.Buffer, f *Field, verb rune, mode fmtMode, visited map[*Ty
 			s = OrigSym(s)
 		}
 
-		if s != nil && f.Embedded == 0 {
+		if s != nil {
 			if funarg != FunargNone {
 				name = fmt.Sprint(f.Nname)
+			} else if f.Embedded != 0 {
+				// Using type aliases and embedded fields, it's possible to
+				// construct types that can't be directly represented as a
+				// type literal. For example, given "type Int = int" (#50190),
+				// it would be incorrect to format "struct{ Int }" as either
+				// "struct{ int }" or "struct{ Int int }", because those each
+				// represent other, distinct types.
+				//
+				// So for the purpose of LinkString (i.e., fmtTypeID), we use
+				// the non-standard syntax "struct{ Int = int }" to represent
+				// embedded fields that have been renamed through the use of
+				// type aliases.
+				if mode == fmtTypeID {
+					// Compute styp, the symbol that would normally be used as
+					// the field name when embedding f.Type.
+					// TODO(mdempsky): Check for other occurences of this logic
+					// and deduplicate.
+					typ := f.Type
+					if typ.Sym() == nil && typ.IsPtr() {
+						typ = typ.Elem()
+					}
+					styp := typ.Sym()
+					if styp != nil && IsExported(styp.Name) {
+						styp = LocalPkg.Lookup(styp.Name)
+					}
+
+					// If embedded field was renamed, use syntax extension.
+					if s != styp {
+						name = sconv(s, 0, mode)
+						nameSep = " = "
+					}
+				}
 			} else if verb == 'L' {
 				name = s.Name
 				if name == ".F" {
@@ -658,7 +691,7 @@ func fldconv(b *bytes.Buffer, f *Field, verb rune, mode fmtMode, visited map[*Ty
 
 	if name != "" {
 		b.WriteString(name)
-		b.WriteString(" ")
+		b.WriteString(nameSep)
 	}
 
 	if f.IsDDD() {