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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,!appengine,!js

package cmp

import (
	"reflect"
	"unsafe"
)

const supportAllowUnexported = true

// unsafeRetrieveField 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.
func unsafeRetrieveField(v reflect.Value, f reflect.StructField) reflect.Value {
	return reflect.NewAt(f.Type, unsafe.Pointer(v.UnsafeAddr()+f.Offset)).Elem()
}