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title: "Memory Errors in Go"
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date: 2019-08-02T22:35:53-04:00
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---
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I enjoy playing with Valgrind. Sometimes I view it as a game to get rid of memory errors. When I wrote a go script, I noticed that I received a lot of memory errors. I decided to double check by writing a simple hello world program in Go.
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```go
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package main
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import "fmt"
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func main() {
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fmt.Println("Hello World")
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}
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```
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Running this then gives me a bunch of memory errors of the form `Invalid read of size 4`.
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Now this doesn't mean that the program is leaky. Valgrind does confirm that no leaks are possible. It then begs the question, does this type of memory error even matter?
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To avoid thinking about that I decided to play with [Rust](https://rust-lang.org) instead.
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