I have read this proposal
carefully
https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12416-cgo-pointers.md#proposal
1. Go code may pass a Go pointer to C provided that the Go memory to
which it points does not contain any Go pointers.
- The C code must not store any Go pointers in Go memory, even
temporarily.
- When passing a pointer to a field in a struct, the Go memory in
question is the memory occupied by the field, not the entire struct.
- When passing a pointer to an element in an array or slice, the Go
memory in question is the entire array or the entire backing array of the
slice.
- *Passing a Go pointer to C code means that that Go pointer is visible
to C code; passing one Go pointer does not cause any other Go pointers to
become visible.*
- *The maximum number of Go pointers that can become visible to C code
in a single function call is the number of arguments to the function.*
So does it is correct that you cannot call some C api like `writev` safely
without concatenating all the byte slices together into one big byte slice?
On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 10:24:52 PM UTC+8 rmfr wrote:
> Say here is a C api like `ssize_t writev(const struct iovec *iov, int
> iovcnt)` which the definition of iovec is like below:
>
> ```
> struct iovec {
> uint8_t *Base; /* Base address. */
> uint64_t Len; /* Length. */
> };
> ```
>
> For C api which like `ssize_t write(const void *buf, size_t nbyte)`, the
> solution would be quite straight forward:
>
> ```
> bs := make([]byte, 1024*1024*512)
> // without extra memory allocation and copying of the whole input byte
> slice :-D
> rc := C.write(unsafe.Pointer(&bs[0]), C.int(len(bs)))
> ```
>
> But how to call C `writev` style API without extra memory allocation or
> copying of the whole byte slice vector?
>
> ```
> bsv := make([][]byte, 1024)
> for i := range bsv{
> bsv[i] = make([]byte, 5*1024*(rand.Intn(i)+1))
> }
> // assuming that allocation of a iovec array is acceptable
> // but allocation and copying of all bsv[x] byte slice member is
> unacceptable
> //
> iovec := make([]syscall.Iovec, len(bsv))
> for i := range bsv {
> bs := bsv[i]
> if len(bs) > 0 {
> iovec[i].Base = unsafe.Pointer(&bs[0])
> iovec[i].Len = uint64(len(bs))
> }
> }
> //
> // rc := C.writev( /* how? :-( */)
> rc := C.writev(unsafe.Pointer(&iovec[0]), C.int(len(iovec))) // Does this
> code is right and safe?
> ```
>
> Does the code above is right?
>
> I have read cgo's docs carefully, and here is a constraint from
> https://golang.org/cmd/cgo/#hdr-Passing_pointers:
>
> > Go code may pass a Go pointer to C provided the Go memory to which it
> points does not contain any Go pointers.
>
> If the Go memory pointed by `unsafe.Pointer(&iovec[0])` contains pointer
> which points to these byte slice members of bsv, so it would be a
> *violation* of the cgo constraint above. And that means you could not
> call C `writev` style API without allocation and copying of the whole
> vector.
>
> Please correct me if I get something wrong. Thanks a lot :-D
>
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