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Go Slices Are Fat Pointers

One of the frequent challenges in C is that pointers are nothing but a memory address. A callee who is passed a pointer doesn’t truly know anything other than the type of object being pointed at, which says some things about alignment and how that pointer can be used… maybe. If it’s a pointer to void ( void * ) then…
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Jun 30, 2019Go Slices Are Fat Pointers by ingve35299

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