sync/atomic: disallow type conversions of atomic.Pointer[T]

Fixes #56603

Change-Id: I6af9d80201025ae4028bfaa4a62e5de9ac0c501d
GitHub-Last-Rev: e6ed5e14512e1221a3c6cb181406cf00eec07e99
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#56604
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/448275
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>

diff --git a/src/sync/atomic/type.go b/src/sync/atomic/type.go
index 87c98b1e77e90780edcd38f8edc8856c43e3feff..4d466232f16b1a1efa7678c7d0d92436661e1722 100644 (file)
--- a/src/sync/atomic/type.go
+++ b/src/sync/atomic/type.go
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ var _ = &Pointer[int]{}
 
 // A Pointer is an atomic pointer of type *T. The zero value is a nil *T.
 type Pointer[T any] struct {
+       // Mention T in a field to disallow conversion between Pointer types.
+       // See go.dev/issue/56603 for more details.
+       _ [0]T
+
        _ noCopy
        v unsafe.Pointer
 }