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diff --git a/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go b/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go deleted file mode 100644 index 83b2e1405..000000000 --- a/src/pkg/unsafe/unsafe.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. -// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style -// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. - -/* - Package unsafe contains operations that step around the type safety of Go programs. -*/ -package unsafe - -// ArbitraryType is here for the purposes of documentation only and is not actually -// part of the unsafe package. It represents the type of an arbitrary Go expression. -type ArbitraryType int - -// Pointer represents a pointer to an arbitrary type. There are four special operations -// available for type Pointer that are not available for other types. -// 1) A pointer value of any type can be converted to a Pointer. -// 2) A Pointer can be converted to a pointer value of any type. -// 3) A uintptr can be converted to a Pointer. -// 4) A Pointer can be converted to a uintptr. -// Pointer therefore allows a program to defeat the type system and read and write -// arbitrary memory. It should be used with extreme care. -type Pointer *ArbitraryType - -// Sizeof returns the size in bytes occupied by the value v. The size is that of the -// "top level" of the value only. For instance, if v is a slice, it returns the size of -// the slice descriptor, not the size of the memory referenced by the slice. -func Sizeof(v ArbitraryType) uintptr - -// Offsetof returns the offset within the struct of the field represented by v, -// which must be of the form structValue.field. In other words, it returns the -// number of bytes between the start of the struct and the start of the field. -func Offsetof(v ArbitraryType) uintptr - -// Alignof returns the alignment of the value v. It is the maximum value m such -// that the address of a variable with the type of v will always be zero mod m. -// If v is of the form structValue.field, it returns the alignment of field f within struct object obj. -func Alignof(v ArbitraryType) uintptr |