> If you have a struct with a simple int field, and you store that somewhere as an *int, the entire struct and anything it points to will be kept alive.
While Go allows interior pointers, I don't think what you say is true. runtime.KeepAlive was added exactly to prevent GC from collecting the struct when only a field pointer is stored. Take a look at this blog post, for example: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-runtime-finalizer-keepal...
While Go allows interior pointers, I don't think what you say is true. runtime.KeepAlive was added exactly to prevent GC from collecting the struct when only a field pointer is stored. Take a look at this blog post, for example: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-runtime-finalizer-keepal...