Since Go1.10, go test runs vet on the tests before executing them.
Moreover, the vet tool typechecks the package under analysis with
go/types before running. In Go1.10, a typechecking failure just caused
a warning to be printed. In Go1.11, a typechecking failure will cause
vet to exit with a fatal error (see Issue #21287).
This means that starting with Go1.11, tests that don't typecheck will
fail immediately. This would not normally be an issue, since a test
that doesn't typecheck shouldn't even compile, and it should already
be broken.
Unfortunately, there's a bug in gc that makes it accept programs with
unused variables inside a closure (Issue #3059). This means that a
test with an unused variable inside a closure, that compiled and
passed in Go1.10, will fail in the typechecking step of vet starting
with Go1.11.
Explain this in the 1.11 release notes.
Fixes#26109
Change-Id: I970c1033ab6bc985d8c64bd24f56e854af155f96
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/121455
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
This is close to a complete rewrite, as the content was pretty old.
The CL includes links to the Wiki for information about companies
using Go, a new section about IDEs and editors¹, and a restatement
of the foreign function interface story. It also modernizes and
expands a little on the use of Go inside Google.
¹ Ed is the standard editor.
Change-Id: I5e54aafa53d00d86297b2691960a376b40f6225b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123922
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Significant surgery done to the Versioning section, bringing it closer to
modern thinking.
Also add a question about constants.
Update #26107.
Change-Id: Icf70b7228503c6baaeab0b95ee3e6bee921575aa
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123918
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Changes are mostly about making more about now than about the past,
changing some verb tenses, and mentioning gollvm (which should
be pronounced "gollum" if you ask me).
Update #26107
Change-Id: I6c14f42b9fc2684259d4ba8bc149d7ec9bb83d15
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123917
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The old text was written when it was only 1 by default, which
changed a long time ago.
Also add a note that GOMAXPROCS does not limit the total
number of threads.
Change-Id: I104ccd7266d11335320a4d7f5671fb09ed641f88
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123916
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Many parts of the FAQ are dusty and need cleaning up.
This is the first of a series of changes to bring it up to date.
Since it was first written at the time of release, some of the
ideas and background have changed, and some historical
remarks are largely irrelevant now.
Update #26107.
Change-Id: I1f36df7d8ecc8a1a033d5ac4fa1edeece25ed6b4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123496
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Change "have to" to "need to" for clarity and to avoid a
peculiar English idiom.
Change-Id: Iec2b1f841d0353dd7925f8f934fe82d4ed059d7d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123495
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Also, remove some test code that was trying to work on XP and fix up
some comments referencing XP.
Fixes#26191
Updates #23380
Change-Id: I0b7319fe1954afddb22d396e5ec91d8c960268d8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123415
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Brainman <alex.brainman@gmail.com>
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It will not be present in go1.11beta1 but will be present
in subsequent releases.
Change-Id: I298fb682945345bb4a34ec83802fd644f75bdd98
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/120756
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
This change fixes a typo in doc/contribute.html (afects -> affects)
and rewords a few slightly akward sentences.
Change-Id: I6bfbacba0de29464fce134b0fdaf3898a97b8d57
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/120105
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
It's more common to specify GOOS/GOARCH values in that order,
rather than the inverse. Fix the order.
Updates #18892.
Change-Id: I8551508599e019f6617dc007397b562c9926418d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/120057
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The git clone url should be a Gerrit host and not Github, otherwise the
codereview command will fail.
git-codereview: failed to load Gerrit origin: git origin must be a Gerrit host, not GitHub: https://github.com/golang/go
Change-Id: I62f62c86ee6dce0720a844fc56340135dfae8405
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/117178
Reviewed-by: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The name was "Mac OS X" during versions 10.0 to 10.7.
It was renamed to "OS X" starting from 10.8 until 10.11.
The current name is "macOS" starting with 10.12. [1]
Previous changes (e.g., CL 47252) updated "Mac OS X" to macOS
in some places, but not everywhere. This CL updates remaining
instances for consistency.
Only the pages that display current information were updated;
historical pages such as release notes for older Go releases,
past articles, blog posts, etc., were left in original form.
Rename the "#osx" anchor to "#macos" on /doc/install page,
along with the single reference to it on the same page.
Add an empty div with id="osx" to not break old links.
Update minimum macOS version from 10.8 to 10.10 per #23122.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/macOS#History
Updates #23122.
Change-Id: I69fe4b85e83265b9d99f447e3cc5230dde094869
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/119855
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
In an effort to help others avoid the issues I've hit due to lack of
symlink support under GOPATH, I've added a note of warning to the
Workspaces section.
I have not changed the contents of go help gopath, because on reflection
it seems this change alone may be sufficient.
Fixes#21320
Change-Id: Ib8969bf12cecad878e89ff66b5864bbf3caaf219
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/61930
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
After CL 113016 the "a" article is no longer necessary.
Change-Id: I5a80a210bd2b9eedd73d5f9f3f338d7f22c29ea6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/113355
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Mostly just formatting and minor cleanup:
- regularize HTML (add </p> etc.)
- remove all errors caught by tidy
- start all sentences on new line for easy editing
Some wording changes, but there will be more to come.
It seemed there were already enough edits to send it out.
Update #24487
Change-Id: I613ce206b1e8e3e522ecb0bbcd2acb11c4ff5bae
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/113015
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The phrase "couple X" is considered colloquial, so make that "a couple of X".
Also move the start of a sentence to a new line in a couple of places
for easier editing, in one place thereby removing two spaces after a period.
Change-Id: If5ef05eb496afc235f8f0134c4e7346375a65181
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/112176
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The videos on the front page are always the same width, regardless of
the viewport width. These changes let the video fill the space given
to its container regardless of layout. It uses the standard hack for
making iframes responsive, but the videos are loaded at random and do
not have uniform aspect ratios so that information is injected into the
DOM using custom properties. If these are not supported, it falls back
to the same layout present before this change.
Note: this change also requires CL 108678 to complete the fix,
though either CL without the other is harmless.
Updates #24997.
Change-Id: I2f93dc21ffe01d99ce0e175e9dd0e3d486fddc9f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108677
Run-TryBot: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
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Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
In the binary sizes FAQ, the approximate size of a Go hello world
binary was said to be 1.5MB (it was about 1.6MB on go1.7 on
linux/amd64). Sadly, this is no longer true. A Go1.10 hello world is
2.0MB, and in 1.11 it'll be about 2.5MB.
Just say "a couple megabytes" to stop this dance.
Change-Id: Ib4dc13a47ccd51327c1a9d90d4116f79597513a4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/110069
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
mips64 softfloat support is based on mips implementation and introduces
new enviroment variable GOMIPS64.
GOMIPS64 is a GOARCH=mips64{,le} specific option, for a choice between
hard-float and soft-float. Valid values are 'hardfloat' (default) and
'softfloat'. It is passed to the assembler as
'GOMIPS64_{hardfloat,softfloat}'.
Change-Id: I7f73078627f7cb37c588a38fb5c997fe09c56134
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108475
Reviewed-by: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
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The example in the 'A web server' section of the effective Go document
uses Google's image charts API (at chart.apis.google.com).
The service is now deprecated (see developers.google.com/chart/image),
and visiting http://chart.apis.google.com gives a 404. The endpoint is
still active, so the Go code in the example still works, but there's
no point in making the link clickable by the user if the page returns
a 404.
Change the element to `<code>`.
Change-Id: Ie67f4723cfa636e3dc1460507055b6bbb2b0970c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/109576
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The existing text makes it seem like there's no way
to use GitHub over HTTPS. There is. Explain that.
Also, the existing text suggests explicit checkout into $GOPATH,
which is not going to work in the new module world.
Drop that alternative.
Also, the existing text uses pushInsteadOf instead of insteadOf,
which would have the effect of being able to push to a private
repo but not clone it in the first place. That seems not helpful,
so suggest insteadOf instead.
Fixes#18927.
Change-Id: Ic358b66f88064b53067d174a2a1591ac8bf96c88
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107775
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
