On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle
<michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Lynn A. Boger
>> <labo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> In libgo/go/reflect/makefunc.go, calls to MakeFunc, makeMethodValue and
>>> makeValueMethod will panic if called when GOARCH is ppc64 or ppc64le.
>>
>> Right, I'm just saying that almost no code actually does that. I just
>> tried a web search and found no uses other than examples of how to use
>> it. I'm sure there are a few, but not many.
>
> There is a somewhat hidden one in Docker:
>
> https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/api/client/cli.go#L64
>
> (it is also possible to patch docker to do this differently, of course).
Ah, so that is why it matters.
Perhaps you could talk Docker into replace the return statement with
return func(a ...string) error {
return
method.CallSlice([]reflect.Value{reflect.ValueOf(a)})[0].Interface().(error)
}, true
It would probably be just as efficient.
Ian
