cmd/compile: replace copytype to setUnderlying

While here, change the params to be easier to understand: "t" is now
always the type being updated, and "underlying" is now used to
represent the underlying type.

Updates #33658.

Change-Id: Iabb64414ca3abaa8c780e4c9093e0c77b76fabf9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/192724
Run-TryBot: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Cuong Manh Le <cuong.manhle.vn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>

3 files changed, 19 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/iimport.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/iimport.go
index 4f44c54868..1d4329b4b1 100644
--- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/iimport.go
+++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/iimport.go
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ func (r *importReader) doDecl(n *Node) {
 		// after the underlying type has been assigned.
 		defercheckwidth()
 		underlying := r.typ()
-		copytype(typenod(t), underlying)
+		setUnderlying(t, underlying)
 		resumecheckwidth()
 
 		if underlying.IsInterface() {
diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/typecheck.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/typecheck.go
index 610c9066b8..5d5348fe2c 100644
--- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/typecheck.go
+++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/typecheck.go
@@ -3442,26 +3442,28 @@ func checkMapKeys() {
 	mapqueue = nil
 }
 
-func copytype(n *Node, t *types.Type) {
-	if t.Etype == TFORW {
+func setUnderlying(t, underlying *types.Type) {
+	if underlying.Etype == TFORW {
 		// This type isn't computed yet; when it is, update n.
-		t.ForwardType().Copyto = append(t.ForwardType().Copyto, asTypesNode(n))
+		underlying.ForwardType().Copyto = append(underlying.ForwardType().Copyto, t)
 		return
 	}
 
-	embedlineno := n.Type.ForwardType().Embedlineno
-	l := n.Type.ForwardType().Copyto
-
-	cache := n.Type.Cache
+	n := asNode(t.Nod)
+	ft := t.ForwardType()
+	cache := t.Cache
 
 	// TODO(mdempsky): Fix Type rekinding.
-	*n.Type = *t
+	*t = *underlying
 
-	t = n.Type
+	// Restore unnecessarily clobbered attributes.
+	t.Nod = asTypesNode(n)
 	t.Sym = n.Sym
 	if n.Name != nil {
 		t.Vargen = n.Name.Vargen
 	}
+	t.Cache = cache
+	t.SetDeferwidth(false)
 
 	// spec: "The declared type does not inherit any methods bound
 	// to the existing type, but the method set of an interface
@@ -3471,24 +3473,20 @@ func copytype(n *Node, t *types.Type) {
 		*t.AllMethods() = types.Fields{}
 	}
 
-	t.Nod = asTypesNode(n)
-	t.SetDeferwidth(false)
-	t.Cache = cache
-
 	// Propagate go:notinheap pragma from the Name to the Type.
 	if n.Name != nil && n.Name.Param != nil && n.Name.Param.Pragma&NotInHeap != 0 {
 		t.SetNotInHeap(true)
 	}
 
-	// Update nodes waiting on this type.
-	for _, n := range l {
-		copytype(asNode(n), t)
+	// Update types waiting on this type.
+	for _, w := range ft.Copyto {
+		setUnderlying(w, t)
 	}
 
 	// Double-check use of type as embedded type.
-	if embedlineno.IsKnown() {
+	if ft.Embedlineno.IsKnown() {
 		if t.IsPtr() || t.IsUnsafePtr() {
-			yyerrorl(embedlineno, "embedded type cannot be a pointer")
+			yyerrorl(ft.Embedlineno, "embedded type cannot be a pointer")
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -3509,7 +3507,7 @@ func typecheckdeftype(n *Node) {
 	} else {
 		// copy new type and clear fields
 		// that don't come along.
-		copytype(n, t)
+		setUnderlying(n.Type, t)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/types/type.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/types/type.go
index e4ab40c4fd..2c8409b3b3 100644
--- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/types/type.go
+++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/types/type.go
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ func (t *Type) MapType() *Map {
 
 // Forward contains Type fields specific to forward types.
 type Forward struct {
-	Copyto      []*Node  // where to copy the eventual value to
+	Copyto      []*Type  // where to copy the eventual value to
 	Embedlineno src.XPos // first use of this type as an embedded type
 }