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+// Copyright 2017, 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.md file.
+
+// +build !purego
+
+package cmp
+
+import (
+ "reflect"
+ "unsafe"
+)
+
+const supportExporters = true
+
+// retrieveUnexportedField uses unsafe to forcibly retrieve any field from
+// a struct such that the value has read-write permissions.
+//
+// The parent struct, v, must be addressable, while f must be a StructField
+// describing the field to retrieve. If addr is false,
+// then the returned value will be shallowed copied to be non-addressable.
+func retrieveUnexportedField(v reflect.Value, f reflect.StructField, addr bool) reflect.Value {
+ ve := reflect.NewAt(f.Type, unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(v.UnsafeAddr()))+f.Offset)).Elem()
+ if !addr {
+ // A field is addressable if and only if the struct is addressable.
+ // If the original parent value was not addressable, shallow copy the
+ // value to make it non-addressable to avoid leaking an implementation
+ // detail of how forcibly exporting a field works.
+ if ve.Kind() == reflect.Interface && ve.IsNil() {
+ return reflect.Zero(f.Type)
+ }
+ return reflect.ValueOf(ve.Interface()).Convert(f.Type)
+ }
+ return ve
+}