cmd/link: consider interface conversions only in reachable code

The linker prunes methods that are not directly reachable if the
receiver type is never converted to interface. Currently, this
"never" is too strong: it is invalidated even if the interface
conversion is in an unreachable function. This CL improves it by
only considering interface conversions in reachable code. To do
that, we introduce a marker relocation R_USEIFACE, which marks
the target symbol as UsedInIface if the source symbol is reached.

binary size    before      after
cmd/compile   18897528   18887400
cmd/go        13607372   13470652

Change-Id: I66c6b69eeff9ae02d84d2e6f2bc7f1b29dd53910
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/256797
Trust: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Faller <jeremy@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/testdata/deadcode/ifacemethod.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/testdata/deadcode/ifacemethod.go
index b62f18c342..32a24cf6f0 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/testdata/deadcode/ifacemethod.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/testdata/deadcode/ifacemethod.go
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ var p *T
 var e interface{}
 
 func main() {
-	p = new(T) // used T, but never converted to interface
+	p = new(T) // used T, but never converted to interface in any reachable code
 	e.(I).M()  // used I and I.M
 }
+
+func Unused() { // convert T to interface, but this function is not reachable
+	var i I = T(0)
+	i.M()
+}
+
+var Unused2 interface{} = T(1) // convert T to interface, in an unreachable global initializer