I'm guessing also, that a "true" pointer has to be byte aligned - no pointer tagging shennanigans with unsafe.Pointer
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 21:42:49 UTC+11, Xuanyi Chew wrote: > > I echo this. > > On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 20:55:03 UTC+11, Jan Mercl wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:57 AM 'Keith Randall' via golang-nuts < >> golan...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >> > Pointers that point from a Go object to somewhere outside the Go heap >> are perfectly fine. >> >> Can you please specify the exact mechanism used by the runtime to >> determine "is outside the Go heap"? I used unsafe.Pointers acquired from a >> memory allocator[0] in one project and I sometimes experienced random >> crashes, cause of which I'm really not certain about. I am currently >> rewriting that project to use uintptrs only because of that and I would >> love to learn more about this. >> >> [0]: https://github.com/cznic/memory >> >> >> -- >> >> -j >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
