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cmd/gc: go:nointerface pragma is undocumented #33737

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bsiegert opened this issue Aug 20, 2019 · 4 comments
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cmd/gc: go:nointerface pragma is undocumented #33737

bsiegert opened this issue Aug 20, 2019 · 4 comments
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@bsiegert
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The Go compiler has a pragma

//go:nointerface

As far as I can tell, it prevents a method from being used to satisfy an interface. However, I cannot find any (public) documentation on it.

Even https://golang.org/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/lex.go, which has comments for the other pragmas, does not describe this one.
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That pragma is only enabled when the toolchain is built with GOEXPERIMENT=fieldtrack. So I think this issue is really that GOEXPERIMENT=fieldtrack doesn't have any meaningful documentation.

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From what I have seen about the fieldtrack experiment, it seems pretty vestigial and never went anywhere. But I might be wrong.

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/cc @rsc @crawshaw

@bcmills bcmills added the NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. label Aug 20, 2019
@bcmills bcmills added this to the Unplanned milestone Aug 20, 2019
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The fieldtrack experiment is used, and should probably be better documented.

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