Package unsafe … Computer architectures may require memory addresses to be aligned; that is, for addresses of a variable to be a multiple of a factor, the variable’s type’s alignment. The function Alignof takes an expression denoting a variable of any type and returns the alignment of the (type of the) variable in bytes. For a variable x: uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&x)) % unsafe.Alignof(x) == 0 I don’t think I’m qualified to really talk much more about this.
