reflect, cmd/internal/gc: look for pointer types by string before synthesizing
The ptrto field of the type data cannot be relied on when dynamic linking: a type T may be defined in a module that makes no use of pointers to that type, but another module can contain a package that imports the first one and does use *T pointers. The second module will end up defining type data for *T and a type.*T symbol pointing at it. It's important that calling .PtrTo() on the refect.Type for T returns this type data and not some synthesized object, so we need reflect to be able to find it! Fortunately, the reflect package already has a mechanism for doing this sort of thing: ChanOf/MapOf/etc look for pre-existing type data by name. So this change just extends PtrTo() to consult this too, and changes the compiler to include pointer types in the data consulted when compiling for dynamic linking. Change-Id: I3773c066fd0679a62e9fc52a84bf64f1d67662b7 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8232Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org> Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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