runtime: crash if we see an invalid pointer into GC arena
This will help find bugs during the release freeze.
It's not clear it should be kept for the release itself.
That's issue 8861.
The most likely thing that would trigger this is stale
pointers that previously were ignored or caused memory
leaks. These were allowed due to the use of conservative
collection. Now that everything is precise, we should not
see them anymore.
The small number check reinforces what the stack copier
is already doing, catching the storage of integers in pointers.
It caught issue 8864.
The check is disabled if _cgo_allocate is linked into the binary,
which is to say if the binary is using SWIG to allocate untyped
Go memory. In that case, there are invalid pointers and there's
nothing we can do about it.
LGTM=rlh
R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov, rlh
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, khr, r
https://golang.org/cl/
148470043