Thanks for the clarification.
On Friday, February 10, 2017 at 3:50:15 AM UTC+3:30, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Sina Siadat <sia...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > One thing I still don't understand is the cases when go:linkname is > needed. > > Why not just import that package, if the function is exported. Is it > only > > used for accessing unexported functions? > > Yes. > > It's primarily a hack that lets certain functions live in the runtime > package, and access runtime internals, but still pretend that they are > unexported functions of some different package. Look for the uses of > go:linkname in the runtime package itself. > > Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
