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doc/go1.16: add vet release note for CL 235677

For #40700
Fixes #42895

Change-Id: I05b60f0d000512d5dddb3d61e0e695aa01943d6a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/274617
Trust: Tim King <taking@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org>
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Tim King 2020-12-01 17:55:35 -08:00
parent 6d3d3fb37f
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@ -283,12 +283,55 @@ Do not send CLs removing the interior tags from such phrases.
<h3 id="vet">Vet</h3>
<p>
TODO
<h4 id="vet-string-int">New warning for invalid testing.T use in
goroutines</h4>
<!-- CL 235677: https://golang.org/cl/235677: cmd/vet: bring in pass to catch invalid uses of testing.T in goroutines -->
<p><!-- CL 235677 -->
The vet tool now warns about invalid calls to the <code>testing.T</code>
method <code>Fatal</code> from within a goroutine created during the test.
This also warns on calls to <code>Fatalf</code>, <code>FailNow</code>, and
<code>Skip{,f,Now}</code> methods on <code>testing.T</code> tests or
<code>testing.B</code> benchmarks.
</p>
<p>
Calls to these methods stop the execution of the created goroutine and not
the <code>Test*</code> or <code>Benchmark*</code> function. So these are
<a href="/pkg/testing/#T.FailNow">required</a> to be called by the goroutine
running the test or benchmark function. For example:
</p>
<pre>
func TestFoo(t *testing.T) {
go func() {
if condition() {
t.Fatal("oops") // This exits the inner func instead of TestFoo.
}
...
}()
}
</pre>
<p>
Code calling <code>t.Fatal</code> (or a similar method) from a created
goroutine should be rewritten to signal the test failure using
<code>t.Error</code> and exit the goroutine early using an alternative
method, such as using a <code>return</code> statement. The previous example
could be rewritten as:
</p>
<pre>
func TestFoo(t *testing.T) {
go func() {
if condition() {
t.Error("oops")
return
}
...
}()
}
</pre>
<p><!-- CL 248686, CL 276372 -->
The vet tool now warns about amd64 assembly that clobbers the BP
register (the frame pointer) without saving and restoring it,