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"Title": "The Go Programming Language Specification",
- "Subtitle": "Version of October 16, 2014",
+ "Subtitle": "Version of October 23, 2014",
"Path": "/ref/spec"
}-->
The built-in package <code>unsafe</code>, known to the compiler,
provides facilities for low-level programming including operations
that violate the type system. A package using <code>unsafe</code>
-must be vetted manually for type safety. The package provides the
-following interface:
+must be vetted manually for type safety and may not be portable.
+The package provides the following interface:
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-Any pointer or value of <a href="#Types">underlying type</a> <code>uintptr</code> can be converted to
-a <code>Pointer</code> type and vice versa.
A <code>Pointer</code> is a <a href="#Pointer_types">pointer type</a> but a <code>Pointer</code>
value may not be <a href="#Address_operators">dereferenced</a>.
+Any pointer or value of <a href="#Types">underlying type</a> <code>uintptr</code> can be converted to
+a <code>Pointer</code> type and vice versa.
+The effect of converting between <code>Pointer</code> and <code>uintptr</code> is implementation-defined.
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