return *stack instead of stack

[simon28082]

Hi, I see that the callers in the source code return *stack instead of stack. Why does this happen?

func callers() *stack {
    const depth = 32
    var pcs [depth]uintptr
    n := runtime.Callers(3, pcs[:])
    var st stack = pcs[0:n]
    return &st
}

[davecheney]

Honestly don’t remember. I can’t think of a reason why it was don’t that way.

[mitar]

I think because fundamental uses *stack. So it is easier to write stack: callers(). So the question is, why fundamental uses *stack. :-)