</pre>

<p>
Specific rules apply to (non-constant) conversions between numeric types or
to and from a string type.
These conversions may change the representation of <code>x</code>
and incur a run-time cost.
All other conversions only change the type but not the representation
of <code>x</code>.
</p>

<p>
There is no linguistic mechanism to convert between pointers and integers.

<a href="/pkg/math/big/"><code>math/big</code></a>.
You can also examine what the compiler emits as assembly code
(the actual output may differ from what you see here):
</p>

<pre>
$ cat x.go
package main

func main() {
	println(3)
}
$ GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go tool compile -S x.go        # or: go build -gcflags -S x.go
"".main STEXT size=74 args=0x0 locals=0x10

</pre>

<p>
Specific rules apply to (non-constant) conversions between numeric types or
to and from a string type.
These conversions may change the representation of <code>x</code>
and incur a run-time cost.
All other conversions only change the type but not the representation
of <code>x</code>.
</p>

<p>
There is no linguistic mechanism to convert between pointers and integers.