Note the removal of the go tool tour command in the Go 1.12 release
notes.
Updates #24819
Change-Id: I258ab9401ea2cc06a83328c67299376fcf23c980
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/158618
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Odeke <emm.odeke@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
I needed Go 1.10 to debug and fix a test failure on that Go version in
x/tools, but I forgot what the magic 'go get' command for this was.
Googling "download specific golang version" and similar keywords showed
no results, presumably because the golang.org/dl subrepo isn't
prominently recommended nor documented anywhere.
The most appropriate documentation page to add this to is doc/install,
since it goes into some detail and is well indexed. We only need a short
section to introduce the trick.
The example does mention a specific version, Go 1.10.7, but I couldn't
imagine a way to make it version-agnostic while still being clear on
what the commands effectively do.
Change-Id: I13158564d76d95caec412cdb35a50a4356df5863
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/157457
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
This is about a minor change but worthy of note because this
may affect the profile results users will see.
Change-Id: Ie2c4358b248f868662dbc71db587576481aa7238
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/158577
Reviewed-by: Raul Silvera <rauls5382@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
The ABI changes should be completely transparent to Go code, but could
cause linking issues in certain situations involving assembly code
reaching across package boundaries. If users encounter linking
problems, point them to the "Compatibility" section of the ABI design
document, which gives some guidance.
Change-Id: I4156d164562e2ec0de7ae8f9a3631a32ec45b317
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/158237
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Worth mentioning because the results are not bit-for-bit identical.
This causes a test failure in github.com/fogleman/gg.
Updates #6794
Change-Id: I701f34927731fb5c658a1be271c04388e5e7e3f7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/157417
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
It was recently updated (again) to version 2018i. Since we're here,
wrap the paragraph at ~70 columns, like all the others.
Change-Id: I0a380385f34f1df1258a9f2af447234967422f37
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/156857
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Change a link in the cgo section of the 1.12 release notes from
https://golang.org/cmd/cgo ...
to
/cmd/cgo/ ...
to uniform it with other links on the page, and to ensure correct
target when the page is displayed on tip.golang.org.
Change-Id: I7653a6ea15ce111a60929c7ae7e9fb0dc9515502
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/156858
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
A workaround has been submitted.
Updates #27993
Change-Id: Ife6443c32673b38000b90dd2efb2985db37ab773
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/156318
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
whereas this is a longstanding tradition
and insofaras it is worth continuing such traditions
and notwithstanding an attempt at future-proofing
thetruthofthematter is that I have been waiting for years to send this change
so despiteallobjections I have updated the copyright year.
Change-Id: I55961b15a7eda35d84fdd9250afdbe19f0bf8412
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/155928
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Odeke <emm.odeke@gmail.com>
Currently the link works also with the non-existing GOARCH armd64, but
let's correct in anyhow.
Change-Id: Ida647b8f9dd2f8460b019f5a23759f10a6da8e60
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/155277
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Fix two typos and don't indent the go vet example.
Change-Id: Iccec56ca5decfbae45547a00115500ed13b703e1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/154721
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Also update a Go 1 compatibility promise link to canonical URL.
Updates #27592
Updates #28264
Change-Id: I5994a0a63e0870c1795c65016590dfad829d26a7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/154618
Reviewed-by: Richard Musiol <neelance@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Allow GOCACHE=off only for operations that never actually write
anything to the cache (in which case the GOCACHE setting should not
matter at all).
Fixes#29127
Change-Id: I733d02cd2fbcf3671f5adcfb73522865d131e360
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/153462
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Reviewed-by: Jay Conrod <jayconrod@google.com>
The String method is n-squared and overwrites its receiver.
Fix both issues, with only a slight loss of clarity.
Fixes#28773
Change-Id: I588f69d4cbd72931b28b984671512834473bd466
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/151217
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Fixes#27619
Change-Id: If18df696c0778efe894a4a249d4964db1b02e5d6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/150159
Reviewed-by: Yuval Pavel Zholkover <paulzhol@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
This text changed in CL 139099 to add "explicit" in front of "conversion".
But now "explicit conversion or assignment" reads like it might mean
"explicit [conversion or assignment]" when what is meant is
"[explicit conversion] or assignment". To make clear that explicit does
not apply to assignment, use "assignment or explicit conversion".
Change-Id: I8ff7a5b3ecd9f562793502fa6808242f22264f28
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/149340
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Adjusted spec to explicitly define the string length as the
number of bytes of the string; the prose now matches the prose
for arrays. Made analogous change for slices.
Fixes#28736.
Change-Id: I47cab321c87de0a4c482f5466b819b2cc8993fd1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/149077
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
In ARM64 ABI, R18 is the "platform register", the use of which is
OS specific. The OS could choose to reserve this register. In
practice, it seems fine to use R18 on Linux but not on darwin (iOS).
Rename R18 to R18_PLATFORM to prevent accidental use. There is no
R18 usage within the standard library (besides tests, which are
updated).
Fixes#26110
Change-Id: Icef7b9549e2049db1df307a0180a3c90a12d7a84
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/147218
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Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Effective Go and the FAQ still had some instances which showed the command line
usage of godoc. Changed them to use go doc.
Updates #25443
Change-Id: If550963322034e6848bc466f79e968e7220e4a88
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/145222
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
A prior attempt at addressing the issue got bogged down in an
endless conversation around the subtleties of Read semantics.
Let's not go there.
Instead, we put the issue to bed, perhaps not in perfect comfort
but well enough, by moving a line of the example so that even
if there is a "benign" error as the issue suggests, the loop
terminates with n and err correctly set.
Fixes#27818
Change-Id: I4a32d56c9e782f17578565d90b22ce531e3d8667
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/143677
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
As of golang.org/cl/141857 the import path has changed from
golang.org/x/tour/gotour to golang.org/x/tour
Change-Id: Ib54ab2e50188ef66c8a5c45136babfa49ad6934a
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The spec currently provides a syntactic rule for receiver base types,
and a strict reading of those rules prohibits the use of type aliases
referring to pointer types as receiver types.
This strict interpretation breaks an assumed rule for aliases, which
is that a type literal can always be replaced by an alias denoting
that literal.
Furthermore, cmd/compile always accepted this new formulation of the
receiver type rules and so this change will simply validate what has
been implemented all along.
Fixes#27995.
Change-Id: I032289c926a4f070d6f7795431d86635fe64d907
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/142757
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
I've linked the gophers discord. It's a well administered discord which already got many members, but it was never officially linked. For many people it's a quality proof if a discord is linked on the official page. I think there are much more people out there, who would prefer to use discord instead of slack or irc.
The discord already got many users without even being promoted, so it's very likely there are many people who are interested in a discord, but they don't want to use unofficial discords. This discord shouldn't be seen as a competitor for the slack, it's a platform for those, who don't want to use slack.
Change-Id: Ib1ee7173f394b810f5cccf67b498485ecbf8a7db
GitHub-Last-Rev: 286ebad994
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#24176
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/97718
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The spec used the term "conversion" somewhat indiscriminately for
explicit conversions that appear literally in the source, and implicit
conversions that are implied by the context of an expression.
Be clearer about it by defining the terms.
Also, state that integer to string conversions of the form string(x)
are never implicit. This clarifies situations where implicit conversions
might require an integer to change to a string (but don't and never have
done so). See line 3948.
Fixes#26313.
Change-Id: I8939466df6b5950933ae7c987662ef9f88827fda
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/139099
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
This hasn't been true at least since 1.4. Until golang.org/cl/137235
they were lumped together into a random compile unit, now they are
assigned to the correct one.
Change-Id: Ib66539bd67af3e9daeecac8bf5f32c10e62e11b1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/138415
Reviewed-by: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
Fixes#27802.
Change-Id: I7ea9f7279300a55b0cb851893edc591a6f84e324
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/136758
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
It's worth clarifying that the language is called "Go".
Fixes#27616.
Change-Id: Ie4a9cb5e7e6afa437c60e06914125ef7490f27d0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/135517
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
In Go 1.11, cmd/go gained support for the GOFLAGS environment variable.
It was added and described in detail in CL 126656.
Mention it in the Go 1.11 release notes, link to the cmd/go documentation,
and add more details there.
Fixes#27282.
Change-Id: Ifc35bfe3e0886a145478d36dde8e80aedd8ec68e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/135035
Reviewed-by: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
The discussion list was buried beneath the developer mailing list.
This change puts the discussion list first and gives it a more
prominent heading.
Change-Id: I8dcb4af98e454ae3a0140f9758a5656909126983
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/134136
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The benchstat tool computes statistics about benchmarks, including
whether any differences are statistically significant. Recommend its use
in commit messages of performance-related changes rather than the
simpler benchcmp tool.
Change-Id: I4b35c2d892b48e60c3064489b035774792c19c30
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/132515
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The wiki page has recently been created, and at this time it's
just a stub. It's expected that support for WebAssembly will be
evolving over time, and the wiki page can be kept updated with
helpful information, how to get started, tips and tricks, etc.
Use present tense because it's expected that there will be more
general information added by the time Go 1.11 release happens.
Also add link to https://webassembly.org/ in first paragraph.
Change-Id: I139c2dcec8f0d7fd89401df38a3e12960946693f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/131078
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The unexported field is hidden from reflect based marshalers, which
would break otherwise. Also, make it return an error, as there are
multiple reasons it might fail.
Fixes#27125
Change-Id: I92adade2fe456103d2d5c0315629ca0256953764
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/130535
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