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Dominique Lefevre 6d5c9f2f26 reflect: remove broken support for embedding of interfaces from StructOf.
When reviewing https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/522435,
Cherry Mui cherryyz@google.com noticed that the implementation of
StructOf was broken, and produced junk if an interface was embedded
into a struct. For example, StructOf messed up the calling convention
for methods of the embedded interface:

> The main problem is that the method wrappers created by reflect.MakeFunc
> expects to be called with a closure calling convention, with a closure
> context passed in the context register. But methods are called with
> a different calling convention, without setting the closure register,
> because (besides this case) all methods are top level functions.
> So there is no way to pass that makefunc closure context.

It is curious that StructOf did not break in go 1.17 which introduced
the regabi. I've tried to run the following example program, and it
fails even in 1.7 which introduced StructOf.

As the embedding of interfaces has been broken since forever,
let us not perpetuate the complexity that this feature brings,
and just remove the support for embedding altogether.

The test program:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
)

type I interface {
	F()
}

type T int

func (t T) F() { println(t) }

func main() {
	var i I
	t := reflect.StructOf([]reflect.StructField{
		{
			Anonymous: true,
			Name:      "I",
			Type:      reflect.TypeOf(&i).Elem(),
		},
	})
	v := reflect.New(t).Elem()
	v.Field(0).Set(reflect.ValueOf(T(42)))
	fmt.Println(v)
	v.Interface().(interface{ F() }).F() // fatal error
}

Change-Id: I7b2115c22d66ea4ed746f0f9d22b2c94f604e185
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/526075
LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI <golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Reviewed-by: Cherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
2023-09-22 16:25:10 +00:00
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api net/http: implement path value methods on Request 2023-09-14 00:00:28 +00:00
doc doc/go1.22: correct tipo languague => language 2023-09-18 17:33:59 +00:00
lib/time lib/time: update to 2023c/2023c 2023-05-03 20:14:11 +00:00
misc os: add tests for UserCacheDir and UserConfigDir 2023-08-21 17:46:57 +00:00
src reflect: remove broken support for embedding of interfaces from StructOf. 2023-09-22 16:25:10 +00:00
test cmd/compile/internal/ssa: optimize (AND (MOVDconst [-1] x)) on PPC64 2023-09-22 14:09:29 +00:00
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