On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:28 AM 'Michael Pratt' via golang-nuts <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Go has a non-moving GC [1], so that is not an issue. That said, > unsafe.Pointer states "the referenced allocated object, if any, is retained > and not moved until the call completes". It doesn't say that this recursively > applies to objects referenced by the converted object, though I perhaps it > should.
To date we have explicitly decided that it shouldn't. See the discussion at https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/design/12416-cgo-pointers.md. 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcXw4y_AX75Dk1RkHwL1ouMGoRPPoCszt57XN3r0Cy_NtA%40mail.gmail.com.