This flag is experimental and the semantics may change
even after Go 1.7 is released. There are no changes to code
not using the flag.
The first part is for reading by future compiles.
The second part is for reading by the final link step.
Splitting the file this way allows distributed build systems
to ship the compile-input part only to compile steps and
the linker-input part only to linker steps.
The first part is basically just the export data,
and the second part is basically everything else.
The overall files still have the same broad structure,
so that existing tools will work with both halves.
It's just that various pieces are empty in the two halves.
This also copies the two bits of data the linker needed from
export data into the object header proper, so that the linker
doesn't need any export data at all. That eliminates a TODO
that was left for switching to the binary export data.
(Now the linker doesn't need to know about the switch.)
The default is still to write out a combined output file.
Nothing changes unless you pass -linkobj to the compiler.
There is no support in the go command for -linkobj,
since the go command doesn't copy objects around.
The expectation is that other build systems (like bazel, say)
might take advantage of this.
The header adjustment and the option for the split output
was intended as part of the zip archives, but the zip archives
have been cut from Go 1.7. Doing this to the current archives
both unblocks one step in the switch to binary export data
and enables alternate build systems to experiment with the
new flag using the Go 1.7 release.
Change-Id: I8b6eab25b8a22b0a266ba0ac6d31e594f3d117f3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22500
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
The -msan option causes the compiler to add instrumentation for the
C/C++ memory sanitizer. Every memory read/write will be preceded by
a call to msanread/msanwrite.
This CL passes tests but is not usable by itself. The actual
implementation of msanread/msanwrite in the runtime package, and support
for -msan in the go tool and the linker, and tests, will follow in
subsequent CLs.
Change-Id: I3d517fb3e6e65d9bf9433db070a420fd11f57816
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/16160
Reviewed-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
The -importmap option takes an argument of the form old=new
and specifies that import "old" should be interpreted as if it said
import "new". The option may be repeated to specify multiple mappings.
This option is here to support the go command's new -vendor flag.
Change-Id: I31b4ed4249b549982a720bf61bb230462b33c59b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10922
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
These are the Go 1.4 docs but refreshed for Go 1.5.
The most sigificant change is that all references to the Plan 9 toolchain are gone.
The tools no longer bear any meaningful resemblance.
Change-Id: I44f5cadb832a982323d7fee0b77673e55d761b35
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10298
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
