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They're not the same. Go doesn't have pointer arithmetic, and Go functions can safely return pointers to values that aren't created via new(). https://play.gol

They're not the same. Go doesn't have pointer arithmetic, and Go functions can safely return pointers to values that aren't created via new(). https://play.golang.org/p/m3OdaXH98_ https://play.golang.org/p/m3OdaXH98_

pjmlp 9y ago
Yes it has, via unsafe package. Which ANSI C example should I write for you in Go?
- echlebek 9y ago
  Package unsafe is in the spec, but converting unsafe.Pointer to uintptr (which is how I'm supposing you'd do your pointer arithmetic) is implementation-defined. This means I could create a perfectly legal implementation of Go where such things result in complete nonsense. I don't think package unsafe "counts".
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    If package unsafe doesn't "count", anything that C compilers allow beyond what ANSI C specifies don't count as C, thus many of its system programming features just vanish.
    - echlebek 9y ago
      I don't see how that relates to Go pointers.