// Copyright 2020 The gVisor Authors. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. // +build go1.13 // +build !go1.17 // Check type signatures when updating Go version. // Package gohacks contains utilities for subverting the Go compiler. package gohacks import ( "unsafe" ) // SliceHeader is equivalent to reflect.SliceHeader, but represents the pointer // to the underlying array as unsafe.Pointer rather than uintptr, allowing // SliceHeaders to be directly converted to slice objects. type SliceHeader struct { Data unsafe.Pointer Len int Cap int } // StringHeader is equivalent to reflect.StringHeader, but represents the // pointer to the underlying array as unsafe.Pointer rather than uintptr, // allowing StringHeaders to be directly converted to strings. type StringHeader struct { Data unsafe.Pointer Len int } // Noescape hides a pointer from escape analysis. Noescape is the identity // function but escape analysis doesn't think the output depends on the input. // Noescape is inlined and currently compiles down to zero instructions. // USE CAREFULLY! // // (Noescape is copy/pasted from Go's runtime/stubs.go:noescape().) // //go:nosplit func Noescape(p unsafe.Pointer) unsafe.Pointer { x := uintptr(p) return unsafe.Pointer(x ^ 0) } // ImmutableBytesFromString is equivalent to []byte(s), except that it uses the // same memory backing s instead of making a heap-allocated copy. This is only // valid if the returned slice is never mutated. func ImmutableBytesFromString(s string) (bs []byte) { shdr := (*StringHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&s)) bshdr := (*SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&bs)) bshdr.Data = shdr.Data bshdr.Len = shdr.Len bshdr.Cap = shdr.Len return } // StringFromImmutableBytes is equivalent to string(bs), except that it uses // the same memory backing bs instead of making a heap-allocated copy. This is // only valid if bs is never mutated after StringFromImmutableBytes returns. func StringFromImmutableBytes(bs []byte) string { // This is cheaper than messing with StringHeader and SliceHeader, which as // of this writing produces many dead stores of zeroes. Compare // strings.Builder.String(). return *(*string)(unsafe.Pointer(&bs)) }