package main
import "time"
var x = []string{}
func main() {
go func() {
for {
y := x
y = append(y, "aa")
}
}()
go func() {
for {
x = []string{"123"}
}
}()
for {
time.Sleep(1)
}
}
guess like when x (for example, the address of 123) is not really assigned to y, and x is assigned to a new address like 124. and just this time gc happened, would the address of 123 be recycled and cause a panic?
No. First of all, x has a global scope. So GC won't happen until a new value with new address is assign to it.
Now when a new value is assign, two things can happen:
I don't know what you are trying to do. But there's no panic even if goroutine runs simultaneously. X always has a value.
Since you asked that whether assignment is atomic: No normal assignment is atomic.
"is not really assigned" - what, there is no such thing in go.
Your code has a race condition go run -race
, it writes to "x", reads from "x" and grows "x"'s slice at the same time.
"y := x" is not atomic in general, it depends on value, but it is not atomic for slice/interface{}/map/struct for sure. There is sync.atomic package for atomic primitives.