.NET on a string + bugs

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:29:59 -0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer:
>> I had a hackish scheme to use the most significant bit in the length  
>> field to identify if a slice is just beyond the allocated length.<
>
> Such bit may also be stored in the pointer, if they are aligned to 8 or  
> 16 bytes.

That will affect the GC when it is scanning for pointers.

-Steve