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eurleif on March 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gotchas, Irritants and Warts in Go Web Development

As far as I know, it can only create a pointer of type A that actually points to a value of type B, not reference unallocated/deallocated memory. Nullable<T> could do that too if the language allowed it.

lagom on March 8, 2013 [–]

It's definitely possible to access unallocated memory e.g.,

// p points to address 1000

p := (*int)(unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(1000)))

Of course, this is why use of the unsafe package is heavily discouraged.

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