From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:41:52 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: reflect: correct internal docs for uncommonType
X-Git-Tag: go1.26rc1~419
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6aca04a73a;p=gostls13.git

reflect: correct internal docs for uncommonType

This updates the doc to reflect the change in CL 19790 from 2016.

Change-Id: I1017babf6660aa3b4929755e2eccbe3168b7860c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/714880
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI <golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Auto-Submit: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
---

diff --git a/src/reflect/type.go b/src/reflect/type.go
index fc6edb1e10..9b8726824e 100644
--- a/src/reflect/type.go
+++ b/src/reflect/type.go
@@ -314,7 +314,10 @@ const Ptr = Pointer
 
 // uncommonType is present only for defined types or types with methods
 // (if T is a defined type, the uncommonTypes for T and *T have methods).
-// Using a pointer to this struct reduces the overall size required
+// When present, the uncommonType struct immediately follows the
+// abi.Type struct in memory.
+// The abi.TFlagUncommon indicates the presence of uncommonType.
+// Using an optional struct reduces the overall size required
 // to describe a non-defined type with no methods.
 type uncommonType = abi.UncommonType