CI fails due to 64-bit misalignment for certain Go versions #32
Description
Lint CI check is failing with error:
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x61232f]
The reason originates from the usage of sync/atomic Uint64-related functions here. The bug is explained in package notes here.
To fundamentally fix this, uint64s should be aligned by either placing on top of structs or with padding. It's not a big issue so it can be fixed in the CI by using Go version 1.21.6.
Also, README's status badge is not using this repo's workflows.