On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 4:10:46 AM UTC-8 dmitry....@jetbrains.com wrote:
> What is the meaning of the conversion > > var b []byte > var p *byte = (*byte)(unsafe.Pointer(*b[0])) > You mean &b[0] at the end there, not *b[0]. > > It is used for example in > https://github.com/golang/net/blob/master/internal/socket/iovec_64bit.go. > > How it is different from > > var b []byte > var p *byte = &b[0] > > It is not any different. Not sure why the code goes through that hoop unnecessarily. Probably historical accident. Maybe go through the change history and see how it evolved. > Thank you! > > -- 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/68ad8286-1bcf-4706-ad4c-f33147387c2e%40googlegroups.com.
