From da54dfb6a1f3bef827b9ec3780c98fde77a97d11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KimMachineGun <geon0250@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 08:18:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] doc/go1.16: document new behavior of asn1.Unmarshal on
 invalid argument

For #41509

Change-Id: Ie761c428710d15848cb80ffd2d85de747113f2d4
GitHub-Last-Rev: 05541624593d945d82b6f4cfae1461654eabea7b
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#42315
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/267057
Trust: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
---
 doc/go1.16.html | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/go1.16.html b/doc/go1.16.html
index 086557ca48b..f8b2c3f371f 100644
--- a/doc/go1.16.html
+++ b/doc/go1.16.html
@@ -453,6 +453,18 @@ Do not send CLs removing the interior tags from such phrases.
   </dd>
 </dl><!-- crypto/x509 -->
 
+<dl id="encoding/asn1"><dt><a href="/pkg/encoding/asn1">encoding/asn1</a></dt>
+  <dd>
+    <p><!-- CL 255881 -->
+      <a href="/pkg/encoding/asn1/#Unmarshal">Unmarshal</a> and
+      <a href="/pkg/encoding/asn1/#UnmarshalWithParams">UnmarshalWithParams</a>
+      now return an error instead of panic when the argument is not
+      a pointer or is nil. This change matches the behavior of other
+      encoding packages such as <a href="/pkg/encoding/json">encoding/json</a>.
+    </p>
+  </dd>
+</dl>
+
 <dl id="encoding/json"><dt><a href="/pkg/encoding/json/">encoding/json</a></dt>
   <dd>
     <p><!-- CL 234818 -->