diff --git a/misc/cgo/testshared/src/depBase/dep.go b/misc/cgo/testshared/src/depBase/dep.go
index a518b4efe2..9f86710db0 100644
--- a/misc/cgo/testshared/src/depBase/dep.go
+++ b/misc/cgo/testshared/src/depBase/dep.go
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"reflect"
 )
 
+var SlicePtr interface{} = &[]int{}
+
 var V int = 1
 
 var HasMask []string = []string{"hi"}
diff --git a/misc/cgo/testshared/src/exe/exe.go b/misc/cgo/testshared/src/exe/exe.go
index 433727112b..84302a811f 100644
--- a/misc/cgo/testshared/src/exe/exe.go
+++ b/misc/cgo/testshared/src/exe/exe.go
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ func F() *C {
 	return nil
 }
 
+var slicePtr interface{} = &[]int{}
+
 func main() {
 	defer depBase.ImplementedInAsm()
 	// This code below causes various go.itab.* symbols to be generated in
@@ -32,4 +34,11 @@ func main() {
 	if reflect.TypeOf(F).Out(0) != reflect.TypeOf(c) {
 		panic("bad reflection results, see golang.org/issue/18252")
 	}
+
+	sp := reflect.New(reflect.TypeOf(slicePtr).Elem())
+	s := sp.Interface()
+
+	if reflect.TypeOf(s) != reflect.TypeOf(slicePtr) {
+		panic("bad reflection results, see golang.org/issue/18729")
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/runtime/symtab.go b/src/runtime/symtab.go
index f52190661c..ed82783ca9 100644
--- a/src/runtime/symtab.go
+++ b/src/runtime/symtab.go
@@ -285,6 +285,25 @@ func modulesinit() {
 			md.gcbssmask = progToPointerMask((*byte)(unsafe.Pointer(md.gcbss)), md.ebss-md.bss)
 		}
 	}
+
+	// Modules appear in the moduledata linked list in the order they are
+	// loaded by the dynamic loader, with one exception: the
+	// firstmoduledata itself the module that contains the runtime. This
+	// is not always the first module (when using -buildmode=shared, it
+	// is typically libstd.so, the second module). The order matters for
+	// typelinksinit, so we swap the first module with whatever module
+	// contains the main function.
+	//
+	// See Issue #18729.
+	mainText := funcPC(main_main)
+	for i, md := range *modules {
+		if md.text <= mainText && mainText <= md.etext {
+			(*modules)[0] = md
+			(*modules)[i] = &firstmoduledata
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
 	atomicstorep(unsafe.Pointer(&modulesSlice), unsafe.Pointer(modules))
 }