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Rob Pike 01f8cd246d go.tools: add go/types, ssa, and cmd/vet
They will be deleted from their current homes once this has landed.
Changes made to import paths to make the code compile, and to find
errchk in the right place in cmd/vet's Makefile.
TODO in a later CL: tidy up vet.

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// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
/*
Vet examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs, such as Printf
calls whose arguments do not align with the format string. Vet uses heuristics
that do not guarantee all reports are genuine problems, but it can find errors
not caught by the compilers.
Its exit code is 2 for erroneous invocation of the tool, 1 if a
problem was reported, and 0 otherwise. Note that the tool does not
check every possible problem and depends on unreliable heuristics
so it should be used as guidance only, not as a firm indicator of
program correctness.
By default all checks are performed, but if explicit flags are provided, only
those identified by the flags are performed.
Available checks:
1. Printf family, flag -printf
Suspicious calls to functions in the Printf family, including any functions
with these names:
Print Printf Println
Fprint Fprintf Fprintln
Sprint Sprintf Sprintln
Error Errorf
Fatal Fatalf
Panic Panicf Panicln
If the function name ends with an 'f', the function is assumed to take
a format descriptor string in the manner of fmt.Printf. If not, vet
complains about arguments that look like format descriptor strings.
It also checks for errors such as using a Writer as the first argument of
Printf.
2. Methods, flag -methods
Non-standard signatures for methods with familiar names, including:
Format GobEncode GobDecode MarshalJSON MarshalXML
Peek ReadByte ReadFrom ReadRune Scan Seek
UnmarshalJSON UnreadByte UnreadRune WriteByte
WriteTo
3. Struct tags, flag -structtags
Struct tags that do not follow the format understood by reflect.StructTag.Get.
4. Untagged composite literals, flag -composites
Composite struct literals that do not use the type-tagged syntax.
Usage:
go tool vet [flag] [file.go ...]
go tool vet [flag] [directory ...] # Scan all .go files under directory, recursively
The other flags are:
-v
Verbose mode
-printfuncs
A comma-separated list of print-like functions to supplement
the standard list. Each entry is in the form Name:N where N
is the zero-based argument position of the first argument
involved in the print: either the format or the first print
argument for non-formatted prints. For example,
if you have Warn and Warnf functions that take an
io.Writer as their first argument, like Fprintf,
-printfuncs=Warn:1,Warnf:1
*/
package main