cgo: implement C unions

Unions are somewhat hard to implement in Go because they are not a
native type. But it is actually possible with some compiler magic.

This commit inserts a special "C union" field at the start of a struct
to indicate that it is a union. As such a field cannot be written
directly in Go, this is a useful to distinguish structs and unions.
This commit is contained in:
Ayke van Laethem
2019-04-11 23:14:10 +02:00
committed by Ron Evans
parent 536086988c
commit d2b3a5486c
8 changed files with 206 additions and 22 deletions
+24 -1
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@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ import "C"
import "unsafe"
func (s C.myint) Int() int {
return int(s)
}
func main() {
println("fortytwo:", C.fortytwo())
println("add:", C.add(C.int(3), 5))
@@ -36,9 +40,28 @@ func main() {
println("complex float:", C.globalComplexFloat)
println("complex double:", C.globalComplexDouble)
println("complex long double:", C.globalComplexLongDouble)
println("struct:", C.globalStruct.s, C.globalStruct.l, C.globalStruct.f)
// complex types
println("struct:", C.int(unsafe.Sizeof(C.globalStruct)) == C.globalStructSize, C.globalStruct.s, C.globalStruct.l, C.globalStruct.f)
var _ [3]C.short = C.globalArray
println("array:", C.globalArray[0], C.globalArray[1], C.globalArray[2])
println("union:", C.int(unsafe.Sizeof(C.globalUnion)) == C.globalUnionSize)
C.unionSetShort(22)
println("union s:", C.globalUnion.s)
C.unionSetFloat(3.14)
println("union f:", C.globalUnion.f)
C.unionSetData(5, 8, 1)
println("union global data:", C.globalUnion.data[0], C.globalUnion.data[1], C.globalUnion.data[2])
println("union field:", printUnion(C.globalUnion).f)
}
func printUnion(union C.joined_t) C.joined_t {
println("union local data: ", union.data[0], union.data[1], union.data[2])
union.s = -33
println("union s method:", union.s.Int(), union.data[0] == 5)
union.f = 6.28
println("union f:", union.f)
return union
}
//export mul