Commit 5361b747 authored by Robert Griesemer's avatar Robert Griesemer

spec: minimal documention of unsafe.Pointer conversions

Per suggestion from rsc as a result of the dicussion of
(abandoned) CL 153110044.

Fixes #7192.

LGTM=r, rsc, iant
R=r, rsc, iant, ken
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/163050043
parent b5112300
<!--{
"Title": "The Go Programming Language Specification",
"Subtitle": "Version of October 16, 2014",
"Subtitle": "Version of October 23, 2014",
"Path": "/ref/spec"
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......@@ -6207,8 +6207,8 @@ type Error interface {
The built-in package <code>unsafe</code>, known to the compiler,
provides facilities for low-level programming including operations
that violate the type system. A package using <code>unsafe</code>
must be vetted manually for type safety. The package provides the
following interface:
must be vetted manually for type safety and may not be portable.
The package provides the following interface:
</p>
<pre class="grammar">
......@@ -6223,10 +6223,11 @@ func Sizeof(variable ArbitraryType) uintptr
</pre>
<p>
Any pointer or value of <a href="#Types">underlying type</a> <code>uintptr</code> can be converted to
a <code>Pointer</code> type and vice versa.
A <code>Pointer</code> is a <a href="#Pointer_types">pointer type</a> but a <code>Pointer</code>
value may not be <a href="#Address_operators">dereferenced</a>.
Any pointer or value of <a href="#Types">underlying type</a> <code>uintptr</code> can be converted to
a <code>Pointer</code> type and vice versa.
The effect of converting between <code>Pointer</code> and <code>uintptr</code> is implementation-defined.
</p>
<pre>
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