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+// Copyright 2020 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 file.
+
+// Package unsafeheader contains header declarations for the Go runtime's slice
+// and string implementations.
+//
+// This package allows packages that cannot import "reflect" to use types that
+// are tested to be equivalent to reflect.SliceHeader and reflect.StringHeader.
+package unsafeheader
+
+import (
+ "unsafe"
+)
+
+// Slice is the runtime representation of a slice.
+// It cannot be used safely or portably and its representation may
+// change in a later release.
+//
+// Unlike reflect.SliceHeader, its Data field is sufficient to guarantee the
+// data it references will not be garbage collected.
+type Slice struct {
+ Data unsafe.Pointer
+ Len int
+ Cap int
+}
+
+// String is the runtime representation of a string.
+// It cannot be used safely or portably and its representation may
+// change in a later release.
+//
+// Unlike reflect.StringHeader, its Data field is sufficient to guarantee the
+// data it references will not be garbage collected.
+type String struct {
+ Data unsafe.Pointer
+ Len int
+}