OSCON 2012 notes

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 22.07.2012 20:46, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:14:23 +0200
> Paulo Pinto<pjmlp at progtools.org>  wrote:
>> 	y :=&x[0]
>> 	fmt.Println("Base adress ", y)
>> 	size := unsafe.Sizeof(x[0])
>> 	fmt.Println("Size per element ", size)
>> 	for i := 0; i<  len(x); i++ {
>> 		cell := uint64(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(y))) +
>> (uint64(i) * uint64(size)) value :=
>> (*byte)(unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(cell))) fmt.Printf("%d index is %d, at
>> %p\n", i, *value, value) }
>> }
>>
>
> Eeew!! That's awful.
>

Pointer arithmetic as endless source for security exploits is to be used
*only* when no other solution exists.

But yes, the way to do it could be simpler.