The documentation specifies that a pointer can be cast into a uintptr integer. I assume that the uintptr is ignored by the garbage collector.
I would like to compute a hash over the uintptr. How do I achieve that ? The documentation doesn’t specify that we can cast an uintptr into a uint64. The byte size may not match. What would be the idiomatic way to compute a hash over a uintpr ? Is it valid to do that ? To give some context, the application is for a cache with the hash key computed over a pointer to a heap allocated struct. I need to store the pointer in the cache entry to test for matching, but this would prevent the struct to be garbage collected. Storing the pointer as an uintptr would do the trick. -- 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/7983a13f-5bf6-4299-a598-1d023ec9a9e9n%40googlegroups.com.
