How do I print the pointer value of a Go object? What does the pointer value mean?

Question

I am just playing around with Go and do not yet have a good mental model of when structs are passed by value or by reference.

This may be a very dumb question but I

Answer 1

In Go, arguments are passed by value.

package main

import "fmt"

type SomeStruct struct {
    e int
}

// struct passed by value
func v(v SomeStruct) {
    fmt.Printf("v: %p %v\n", &v, v)
    v.e = 2
    fmt.Printf("v: %p %v\n", &v, v)
}

// pointer to struct passed by value
func p(p *SomeStruct) {
    fmt.Printf("p: %p %v\n", p, *p)
    p.e = 2
    fmt.Printf("p: %p %v\n", p, *p)
}

func main() {
    var s SomeStruct
    s.e = 1
    fmt.Printf("s: %p %v\n", &s, s)
    v(s)
    fmt.Printf("s: %p %v\n", &s, s)
    p(&s)
    fmt.Printf("s: %p %v\n", &s, s)
}

Output:

s: 0xf800000040 {1}
v: 0xf8000000e0 {1}
v: 0xf8000000e0 {2}
s: 0xf800000040 {1}
p: 0xf800000040 {1}
p: 0xf800000040 {2}
s: 0xf800000040 {2}