On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:20 AM, 'Florian Uekermann' via golang-nuts <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 7:31:28 AM UTC+2, Keith Randall wrote: >> >> There is no conservativeness to unsafe.Pointer. The type information for >> any object in the heap is recorded at allocation time, and is unrelated to >> the type of the reference currently held to it (be it unsafe.Pointer, >> []byte, *int64, or whatever). >> So for 2.2, the answer is no, you are incorrect. > > >> >> On Monday, August 20, 2018 at 4:56:00 PM UTC-7, Kevin Malachowski wrote: >>> >>> That information is old now - Go has a precise GC now. There is some sort >>> of metadata stored for each variable related to whether the type contains >>> pointers (as Jan alluded to earlier in the thread). > > > Thanks guys! That is very good to know. How recent is this change? (what is > the minimum compiler version I need for this?)
Go 1.5, I think. Ian -- 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.
