The Go 1.18 frontend handles package-scope generic method values by
spilling the receiver value to a global temporary variable, which pins
it into memory. This issue isn't present in unified IR, which uses
OMETHVALUE when the receiver type is statically known.
Updates #54343.
Change-Id: I2c4ffeb125a3cf338f949a93b0baac75fff6cd31
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/422198
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
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+// run
+
+// Copyright 2022 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 main
+
+import "runtime"
+
+func main() {
+ if wait() {
+ panic("GC'd early")
+ }
+ m = nil
+ if !wait() {
+ panic("never GC'd")
+ }
+}
+
+var m = New[int]().M
+
+func New[X any]() *T[X] {
+ p := new(T[X])
+ runtime.SetFinalizer(p, func(*T[X]) { close(done) })
+ return p
+}
+
+type T[X any] int
+
+func (*T[X]) M() {}
+
+var done = make(chan int)
+
+func wait() bool {
+ for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+ runtime.GC()
+ select {
+ case <-done:
+ return true
+ default:
+ }
+ }
+ return false
+}
)
var go118Failures = setOf(
+ "fixedbugs/issue54343.go", // 1.18 compiler assigns receiver parameter to global variable
"typeparam/nested.go", // 1.18 compiler doesn't support function-local types with generics
"typeparam/issue51521.go", // 1.18 compiler produces bad panic message and link error
"typeparam/mdempsky/16.go", // 1.18 compiler uses interface shape type in failed type assertions