From dc725bfb3c3f29c7395e088d25ef6bf8dba8f129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KimMachineGun <geon0250@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 23:27:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] doc/go1.16: mention new vet check for asn1.Unmarshal

This vet check was added in CL 243397.

For #40700.

Change-Id: Ibff6df9395d37bb2b84a791443578009f23af4fb
GitHub-Last-Rev: e47c38f6309f31a6de48d4ffc82078d7ad45b171
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#44147
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/290330
Trust: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org>
---
 doc/go1.16.html | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/go1.16.html b/doc/go1.16.html
index 878bf0d0293..f6f72c3882c 100644
--- a/doc/go1.16.html
+++ b/doc/go1.16.html
@@ -378,6 +378,16 @@ func TestFoo(t *testing.T) {
   fixes.
 </p>
 
+<h4 id="vet-asn1-unmarshal">New warning for asn1.Unmarshal</h4>
+
+<p><!-- CL 243397 -->
+  The vet tool now warns about incorrectly passing a non-pointer or nil argument to
+  <a href="/pkg/encoding/asn1/#Unmarshal"><code>asn1.Unmarshal</code></a>.
+  This is like the existing checks for
+  <a href="/pkg/encoding/json/#Unmarshal"><code>encoding/json.Unmarshal</code></a>
+  and <a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Unmarshal"><code>encoding/xml.Unmarshal</code></a>.
+</p>
+
 <h2 id="runtime">Runtime</h2>
 
 <p>