1 // Copyright 2018, The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 package value 6 7 import ( 8 "reflect" 9 "unsafe" 10 ) 11 12 // Pointer is an opaque typed pointer and is guaranteed to be comparable. 13 type Pointer struct { 14 p unsafe.Pointer 15 t reflect.Type 16 } 17 18 // PointerOf returns a Pointer from v, which must be a 19 // reflect.Ptr, reflect.Slice, or reflect.Map. 20 func PointerOf(v reflect.Value) Pointer { 21 // The proper representation of a pointer is unsafe.Pointer, 22 // which is necessary if the GC ever uses a moving collector. 23 return Pointer{unsafe.Pointer(v.Pointer()), v.Type()} 24 } 25 26 // IsNil reports whether the pointer is nil. 27 func (p Pointer) IsNil() bool { 28 return p.p == nil 29 } 30 31 // Uintptr returns the pointer as a uintptr. 32 func (p Pointer) Uintptr() uintptr { 33 return uintptr(p.p) 34 } 35