Linked lists are usually implemented as follows:
type linkedList struct {
next *linkedList
data int // whatever
}
This caused a stack overflow while writing out the reflect run-time type
information. This has now been fixed by splitting the allocation of a
named type number from setting the underlying type in the sidetable.
With this change, it becomes possible to get the element type of named
slices, pointers, and channels.
This is a prerequisite to enable the common named struct types. There's
more to come.
This commit makes sure all Go types can be encoded in the interface type
code, so that Type.Kind() always returns a proper type kind for any
non-nil interface.
Package encoding/binary uses reflect and is needed by image/png, but
image/png doesn't actually need the reflect-using parts of
encoding/binary. So stub them out for now to get it to compile.
Thanks to Stephen Solka who wrote the patch.
Jaden Weiss
Ayke van Laethem
Carolyn Van Slyck
Tomer Elmalem