This is more useful than panicking, since otherwise every caller needs
to do the length check before calling; some will forget, and have a
potential submarine crasher as a result. Other implementations of this
functionality do a length check.

This is backward compatible, except if someone has written code that
relies on this panicking with different length args. However, that was
not the case before Go 1.3 either.

Updates #7304.

LGTM=agl
R=agl, minux, hanwen
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/118750043

In both cases we lie to malloc about the actual size that we need.
In panic we ask for less memory than we are going to use.
In slice we ask for more memory than we are going to use
(potentially asking for a fractional number of elements).
This breaks the new GC.

LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, dave, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/116940043

LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, dave, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/116950043

Rewrite gotos that violate Go's stricter rules.
Use uchar* instead of char* in a few places that aren't strings.
Remove dead opcross code from asm5.c.
Declare regstr (in both list6 and list8) static.

LGTM=minux, dave
R=minux, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/113230043

Even though pointers are 4 bytes the stack frame should be kept
a multiple of 8 bytes so that return addresses pushed on the stack
are properly aligned.

Fixes #8379.

LGTM=dvyukov, minux
R=minux, bradfitz, dvyukov, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/115840048

LGTM=rsc
R=rsc, dan.kortschak
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/115840046

We might want to add a go/build.IsInternal(pkg string) bool
later, but this works for now.

LGTM=dave, rsc
R=rsc, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/113300044

These correspond to 2 and 3 word fat copies/clears on 8g, which dominate usage in the stdlib. (70% of copies and 46% of clears are for 2 or 3 words.) I missed these in CL 111350043, which added 2 and 3 word benchmarks for 6g. A follow-up CL will optimize these cases.

LGTM=khr
R=khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/115160043

LGTM=dvyukov
R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/118020043

I'm improving gccgo's detection of variables that are only set
but not used, and it triggers additional errors on this code.
The new gccgo errors are correct; gc seems to suppress them
due to the other, expected, errors.  This change uses the
variables so that no compiler will complain.

gccgo change is https://golang.org/cl/119920043 .

LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/116050043

The gccgo compiler would fail this test.  The fix for gccgo is
https://golang.org/cl/116960043 .

LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/118000043

GC thinks that it's an invalid pointer on plan9:
http://build.golang.org/log/f7da638a20544ef7f45e81f23fdbc4875044c296

LGTM=0intro
R=golang-codereviews, 0intro
CC=aram, golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/113350043

benchmark                      old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkSelectUncontended     220           165           -25.00%
BenchmarkSelectContended       209           161           -22.97%
BenchmarkSelectProdCons        1042          904           -13.24%

But more importantly this change will allow
to get rid of free function in runtime.

Fixes #6494.

LGTM=rsc, khr
R=golang-codereviews, rsc, dominik.honnef, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, remyoudompheng
https://golang.org/cl/107670043

Fixes #8389.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/111320044

This is a temporary change to see how far the
builder gets when it times out.

LGTM=aram, 0intro
R=0intro, aram
CC=golang-codereviews, mischief
https://golang.org/cl/111400043

subtract freed count before span gets merged during free.

LGTM=dvyukov
R=dmitry, dvyukov
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/112450045

Fix virtual address of the start of the text segment
on amd64 Plan 9.

This issue has been partially fixed in cmd/add2line,
as part of CL 106460044, but we forgot to report the
change to cmd/objdump.

In the meantime, we also fixed the textStart address
in both cmd/add2line and cmd/objdump.

LGTM=aram, ality, mischief
R=rsc, mischief, aram, ality
CC=golang-codereviews, jas
https://golang.org/cl/117920043

LGTM=dvyukov
R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/111360045

Hook pre-commit runs before 'hg commit' command whereas hook precommit runs
after the user has entered commit message.

LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/106320043

LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/105500043

Fixes #8347.

LGTM=dave
R=golang-codereviews, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/109600044

The CopyFat benchmarks were changed in CL 92760044. See CL 111350043 for discussion.

LGTM=khr
R=khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/116000043

These benchmarks are important for performance. When compiling the stdlib:

* 77.1% of the calls to sgen (copyfat) are for 16 bytes; another 8.7% are for 24 bytes. (The next most common is 32 bytes, at 5.7%.)
* Over half the calls to clearfat are for 16 or 24 bytes.

LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/111350043

Ken's standalone file server and its derivatives, like cwfs, return
error strings different from fossil when the user opens non-existent
files.

LGTM=aram, 0intro, r
R=0intro, aram, r
CC=golang-codereviews, ken
https://golang.org/cl/112420045

LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/111330043

Also, fix a write check in writeBuf and make some bounds checks simpler.

LGTM=gri
R=golang-codereviews, adg, gri, r, minux
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/113060043

This CLA replaces the one for 'snyh'.
Verified by hand.

LGTM=minux
R=iant, minux
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/112420043

updatememstats is called on both the m and g stacks.
Call into flushallmcaches correctly.  flushallmcaches
can only run on the M stack.

This is somewhat temporary.  once ReadMemStats is in
Go we can have all of this code M-only.

LGTM=dvyukov
R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/116880043

Pre Go1?

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/115870043

Encoder compilation must be enc-independent,
because the resulting program is reused across
different encoders.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/115860043

Breaks build for FreeBSD. Probably clang related?

««« original CL description
cmd/cgo: disable inappropriate warnings when the gcc struct is empty

package main
//#cgo CFLAGS: -Wall
//void test() {}
import "C"
func main() {
    C.test()
}

This code will cause gcc issuing warnings about unused variable.

This commit use offset of the second return value of
Packages.structType to detect whether the gcc struct is empty,
and if it's directly invoke the C function instead of writing an
unused code.

LGTM=dave, minux
R=golang-codereviews, iant, minux, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/109640045

»»»

TBR=dfc
R=dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/114990044

package main
//#cgo CFLAGS: -Wall
//void test() {}
import "C"
func main() {
    C.test()
}

This code will cause gcc issuing warnings about unused variable.

This commit use offset of the second return value of
Packages.structType to detect whether the gcc struct is empty,
and if it's directly invoke the C function instead of writing an
unused code.

LGTM=dave, minux
R=golang-codereviews, iant, minux, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/109640045

Fixes #8380.

Also update hashmap.go to use throwgo rather than panic.

LGTM=khr
R=khr, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/115860045

redo stack allocation.  This is mostly the same as
the original CL with a few bug fixes.

1. add racemalloc() for stack allocations
2. fix poolalloc/poolfree to terminate free lists correctly.
3. adjust span ref count correctly.
4. don't use cache for sizes >= StackCacheSize.

Should fix bugs and memory leaks in original changelist.

««« original CL description
undo CL 104200047 / 318b04f28372

Breaks windows and race detector.
TBR=rsc

««« original CL description
runtime: stack allocator, separate from mallocgc

In order to move malloc to Go, we need to have a
separate stack allocator.  If we run out of stack
during malloc, malloc will not be available
to allocate a new stack.

Stacks are the last remaining FlagNoGC objects in the
GC heap.  Once they are out, we can get rid of the
distinction between the allocated/blockboundary bits.
(This will be in a separate change.)

Fixes #7468
Fixes #7424

LGTM=rsc, dvyukov
R=golang-codereviews, dvyukov, khr, dave, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/104200047
»»»

TBR=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/101570044
»»»

LGTM=dvyukov
R=dvyukov, dave, khr, alex.brainman
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/112240044

LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/118860043

Resolves TODO for not walking all goroutines in NumGoroutines.

LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/107290044

1. Add select on sync channels benchmark.
2. Make channels in BenchmarkSelectNonblock shared.
With GOMAXPROCS=1 it is the same, but with GOMAXPROCS>1
it becomes a more interesting benchmark.

LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/115780043

Previously we had a bitmap to check whether or not a byte
appears in a string should be replaced. But we don't actually
need a separate bitmap for that purpose. Removing the bitmap
makes the code simpler.

LGTM=dave, iant, nigeltao
R=golang-codereviews, dave, gobot, nigeltao, iant, bradfitz, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/110100043

LGTM=adonovan, rsc
R=rsc, adonovan
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/117800043

Fixes #5750.

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=5750

os: Separate windows from posix. Implement windows support.
path/filepath: Use the same implementation as other platforms
syscall: Add/rework new APIs for Windows

LGTM=alex.brainman
R=golang-codereviews, alex.brainman, gobot, rsc, minux
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/86160044