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encoding/gob: decoding of pointers with two levels of indirection is broken #8872

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gopherbot opened this issue Oct 6, 2014 · 3 comments
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by martin@remerge.io:

go version 1.3.3 (happens at play.golang.org, too)

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Create two structs A and B. 
2. Let B contain an exported int I, and A an exported pointer to a pointer to B named P.
3. Create an instance of B, set I, create an instance of A and let X point to a pointer
to the instance of B.
4. Encode with Gob.
5. Decode with Gob.

=> The value of I is incorrect.

Example: http://play.golang.org/p/RZj-VdGNvL

What happened?

Gob does not properly decode pointers with two levels of indirection. It seems that the
decoder adds another level of indirection (one to many). Example where you can see this
:  http://play.golang.org/p/JkOWiyrHpE

What should have happened instead?

Pointers should be decoded correctly.

Please provide any additional information below.

There were issues with pointers in the past like :
https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=97815e81c184 

decIndirect in the decoder is called twice with indir = 2 in the decoding process for A.
The second or the first call should use 1. I did not look into it deep enough to provide
a fix / suggestion.
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Comment 1:

Labels changed: added repo-main, release-go1.5.

Status changed to Accepted.

@bradfitz bradfitz modified the milestone: Go1.5 Dec 16, 2014
@rsc rsc removed accepted labels Apr 14, 2015
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Seems not to be reproducible on go1.4.2 (current playground).

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rsc commented Jul 14, 2015

Working for me on Go 1.4 and at tip.

@rsc rsc closed this as completed Jul 14, 2015
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