On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Josh Humphries <jh...@bluegosling.com> wrote:
>
> It is possible to extract a map's actual value/address if it is stored in
> the heap -- by using something like this:
> atomic.LoadPointer((*unsafe.Pointer)(unsafe.Pointer(&m)))
> However, it does not appear to possible to go the other direction, even if
> using unsafe. Specifically, to take an unsafe.Pointer and somehow store it
> in a variable whose type is a map.
var m map[int]bool
*(*unsafe.Pointer)(unsafe.Pointer(&m)) = myMapPointer
> My use case wants to be able to lazily compute the map, but then use
> atomic.StoreX to safely set the field value for a struct that could be
> accessed from multiple goroutines. (Readers would, of course, use
> atomic.LoadX).
>
> But it doesn't look like this is possible. And I cannot use atomic.Value
> because I need the structs to be copy-able. I can't copy a struct with
> atomic.Value nested in it because it embeds the special noCopy type. (I know
> the compiler will allow the copy, but I want to do this in a library and
> don't want users of the library to see errors reported by "go vet" due to
> copying this type.)
>
> My current solution is to add another pointer indirection -- so I stick the
> map in a struct, and then I can use atomic.LoadPointer and
> atomic.StorePointer to atomically change a pointer to that struct.
>
> But that seemed a little silly since. Though the language spec does not
> describe maps as pointers, blog posts describe them as reference types and
> the doc for reflect.Value.Pointer() implies that they are (same for
> channels).
>
>
> Is there a particular reason that casting a map (or chan) to unsafe.Pointer,
> and vice versa, is disallowed? We're already using the unsafe package, so I
> can't think of a clear reason to prevent this.
>From a language perspective, there is no reason to lock map and
channel values into always being pointer values.
Ian
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