They can't reasonably be allocated on the heap. Not a huge deal, but
it has an interesting and useful side effect.
After CL 249917, the compiler and runtime treat pointers to
go:notinheap types as uintptrs instead of real pointers (no write
barrier, not processed during stack scanning, ...). That feature is
exactly what we want for cgo to fix #40954. All the cases we have of
pointers declared in C, but which might actually be filled with
non-pointer data, are of this form (JNI's jobject heirarch, Darwin's
CFType heirarchy, ...).
Fixes #40954
Change-Id: I44a3b9bc2513d4287107e39d0cbbd0efd46a3aae
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/250940
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Trust: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>