How to type convert a slice of type aliases

Question

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

type alias int
type aliases []*alias

func main() {
    a1 := alias(1)
    t := aliases{&a1}

    fmt.Println([]*int([]*alias(t)))
}

The type type aliases []*alias is essentially []*int

I want to be able to type convert aliases back to []*int

Answer 1

You can with unsafe.Pointer, a little bit unsafe so not recommended

PointerToSliceOfPointersToInt := (*([]*int))(unsafe.Pointer(&t))

try it works https://play.golang.org/p/6AWd1W_it3