When replacing the naked return with a `return result`, the linter starts to
complain about "return copies lock value: sync/atomic.Int32 contains
sync/atomic.noCopy". I suspect this is also a problem when using a naked return,
and the linter just doesn't catch it in that case. Either way, it's better to
use a pointer to ensure that the atomic is not copied.
Co-authored-by: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
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