dlfcn: return raw unsafe.Pointer

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/dl/dlfcn.go b/dl/dlfcn.go
index f182cfe..eb40794 100644
--- a/dl/dlfcn.go
+++ b/dl/dlfcn.go
@@ -82,16 +82,12 @@ func Open(name string, flags Flag) (*Handle, error) {
 }
 
 // Look up a symbol, and return a pointer to it.
-//
-// This returns uintptr instead of unsafe.Pointer so that code using
-// dl cannot obtain unsafe.Pointers without importing the unsafe
-// package explicitly.
-func (h *Handle) Sym(symbol string) (uintptr, error) {
+func (h *Handle) Sym(symbol string) (unsafe.Pointer, error) {
 	h.l.RLock()
 	defer h.l.RUnlock()
 
 	if h.o == 0 {
-		return 0, HandleClosedError
+		return nil, HandleClosedError
 	}
 
 	symbolC := C.CString(symbol)
@@ -100,9 +96,9 @@ func (h *Handle) Sym(symbol string) (uintptr, error) {
 	dlerror()
 	ptr := C.dlsym(h.c, symbolC)
 	if ptr == nil {
-		return 0, dlerror()
+		return nil, dlerror()
 	}
-	return uintptr(ptr), nil
+	return ptr, nil
 }
 
 // Close this handle on a shared object; decrementint the reference