I have a Go object whose address in memory I would like to keep constant. in C# one can pin an object’s location in memory. Is there a way to do this in Go?
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I have a Go object whose address in memory I would like to keep constant. in C# one can pin an object’s location in memory. Is there a way to do this in Go?
An object on which you keep a reference won’t move. There is no handle or indirection, and the address you get is permanent.
From the documentation :
When you set a variable, you can read this address using the
&operator, and you can pass it.