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thepudds ef20ccc10b reflect: leak packEface input to result rather than heap
This is part of a series of CLs that aim to help allocations
in reflect and reduce how often interface arguments escape
for the print functions in fmt.

Before this change, the reflect.Value parameter for packEface leaks
immediately to the heap due to the various ODOTPTR operations on the
*emptyInterface.  The -m=2 logs report:

 parameter v leaks to <heap> for packEface with derefs=0:
   flow: <heap> ← v:
     from v.ptr (dot) at .\value.go:145:13
     from e.word = v.ptr (assign) at .\value.go:145:10

After this change, the input leaks to the result, which is what
we want:

 parameter v leaks to ~r0 with derefs=0:
   flow: e = v:
     from v.ptr (dot) at .\value.go:143:13
     from e.Data = v.ptr (assign) at .\value.go:143:10
   flow: ~r0 = e:
     from &e (address-of) at .\value.go:147:32
     from *(*any)(unsafe.Pointer(&e)) (indirection) at .\value.go:147:9
     from return *(*any)(unsafe.Pointer(&e)) (return) at .\value.go:147:2

This change here is needed, but reflect.Value.Interface still leaks its
input to the heap for other reasons having to do with method values,
which we attempt to address in CL 530097, CL 530095, and CL 530096.

Updates #8618
Updates #71349

Change-Id: Ie77bc850ff261212eeafe190bd6f9a879676a51d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/528535
LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI <golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@google.com>
Reviewed-by: qiu laidongfeng2 <2645477756@qq.com>
Reviewed-by: Cherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>
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lib lib/fips140: set inprocess.txt to v1.0.0 2025-05-21 10:59:42 -07:00
misc misc/linkcheck: remove unused tool 2025-03-20 04:38:55 -07:00
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