I am still not convinced this is a change we should make, but at least
documenting it will keep us from forgetting it as we get closer to Go 1.1.

R=golang-dev, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7226064

The JSON unmarshaller failed to allocate an array when there
are no values for the input causing the `[]` unmarshalled
to []interface{} to generate []interface{}(nil) rather than
[]interface{}{}. This wasn't caught in the tests because Decode()
works correctly and because jsonBig never generated zero-sized
arrays. The modification to scanner_test.go quickly triggers
the error:

without the change to decoder.go, but with the change to scanner_test.go:

$ go test
--- FAIL: TestUnmarshalMarshal (0.10 seconds)
decode_test.go:446:		Marshal jsonBig
scanner_test.go:206:	diverge at 70: «03c1OL6$":null},{"[=» vs «03c1OL6$":[]},{"[=^\»
FAIL
exit status 1
FAIL	encoding/json	0.266s

Also added a simple regression to decode_test.go.

R=adg, dave, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7196050

R=golang-dev, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7226063

Binary data in mprof.goc may prevent the garbage collector from freeing
memory blocks. This patch replaces all calls to runtime·mallocgc() with
calls to an allocator private to mprof.goc, thus making the private
memory invisible to the garbage collector. The addrhash variable is
moved outside of the .bss section.

R=golang-dev, dvyukov, rsc, minux.ma
CC=dave, golang-dev, remyoudompheng
https://golang.org/cl/7135063

Added the -shared flag to 5l/6l to output a PIC executable with the required
dynamic relocations and RIP-relative addressing in machine code.
Added dummy support to 8l to avoid compilation errors

See also:
https://golang.org/cl/6822078
https://golang.org/cl/7064048

and

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/P05BDjLcQ5k/discussion

R=rsc, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6926049

Fixes #4729.

R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7232060

Generated by addca.

R=gobot
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7230054

To allow for stdcall decorated names on Windows, two changes were needed:
1. Change the symbol versioning delimiter '@' in cgo's dynimport output to a '#', and in cmd/ld when it parses dynimports.
2. Remove the "@N" decorator from the first argument of cgo's dynimport output (PE only).

Fixes #4607.

R=minux.ma, adg, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7047043

(Although it's still half the speed of OpenSSL.)

benchmark           old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkRC4_128         1409          398  -71.75%
BenchmarkRC4_1K         10920         2898  -73.46%
BenchmarkRC4_8K        131323        23083  -82.42%

benchmark            old MB/s     new MB/s  speedup
BenchmarkRC4_128        90.83       321.43    3.54x
BenchmarkRC4_1K         93.77       353.28    3.77x
BenchmarkRC4_8K         61.65       350.73    5.69x

R=rsc, remyoudompheng
CC=golang-dev, jgrahamc
https://golang.org/cl/7234055

Exposing this on the Encoder allows streaming generation of indented XML.

R=golang-dev, rogpeppe
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7221075

Re-assigning the return value of an atomic operation to the same variable being operated is a common mistake:

x = atomic.AddUint64(&x, 1)

Add this check to go vet.

Fixes #4065.

R=dvyukov, golang-dev, remyoudompheng, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7097048

Runemax is already defined in libc on 64-bit version of
Plan 9, but is not defined on other versions.
To accommodate, we make sure to rename any previous
instance of Runemax and re-define it subsequently.

R=rsc, ality, rminnich
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7232059

This change also resolves some issues with note handling: we now make
sure that there is enough room at the bottom of every goroutine to
execute the note handler, and the `exitstatus' is no longer a global
entity, which resolves some race conditions.

R=rminnich, npe, rsc, ality
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6569068

R=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7241048

Range access functions are already available in TSan library
but were not yet used.

Time for go test -race -short:

Before:
compress/flate 24.244s
exp/norm       >200s
go/printer     78.268s

After:
compress/flate 17.760s
exp/norm        5.537s
go/printer      5.738s

Fixes #4250.

R=dvyukov, golang-dev, fullung
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7229044

Generated by addca.

R=gobot
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7247043

R=adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7221055

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7237049

Roll back CL making primitive type unmarshal faster,
because it broke the Unmarshal of malformed data.

Add benchmarks for unmarshal of primitive types.

Update #3949.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7228061

R=cshapiro
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7230052

R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7245043

Fixes #4652.

R=bradfitz, minux.ma, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7094049

We explicitly spill all parameters to the frame during initial
SSA construction.  (Later passes will remove spills.)
We now properly handle local Allocs escaping via Captures.

Also: allocate BasicBlock.Succs inline.

R=iant, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7231050

Useful for debugging of runtime bugs.
+ Do not print "stack segment boundary" unless GOTRACEBACK>1.
+ Do not traceback system goroutines unless GOTRACEBACK>1.

R=rsc, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7098050

R=adg, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6976045

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7231051

R=golang-dev, adg, mikioh.mikioh
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7195049

Otherwise it's impossible to know how much data from the
json.Decoder's underlying Reader was actually consumed.

The old fix from golang.org/issue/1955 just added docs. This
provides an actual mechanism.

Update #1955

R=golang-dev, adg, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7181053

I don't understand why this didn't show up during my testing.

R=bradfitz
TBR=bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7237047

R=golang-dev, bradfitz, rsc, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7240043

The dumping routine incorrectly assumed that all incoming
symbols would be non-nil and load through it to retrieve the
symbol name.  Instead of using the symbol to retrieve a name,
use the name provided by the caller.

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7224043

Add 'math/big' to blacklist of packages that use shift
operations as yet unsupported by go/types.

(The failure was masked due to local bugfixes in my client.)

R=rsc, bradfitz, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7220057

R=gri, iant, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7202051

This CL includes the implementation of Literal, all the
Value.String and Instruction.String methods, the sanity
checker, and other misc utilities.

R=gri, iant, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7199052

Added tests, using input data from strconv.ParseFloat.
Thanks to rsc for most of the test code.

math/big could use some good package-level documentation.

R=remyoudompheng, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6930059

This enables a few tests that were only executed
unconditionnally.

R=rsc, minux.ma, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7103051

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7235045

Mark candidate spans one GC pass earlier.

Move scavenger's code out from mgc0 and constrain it into mheap (where it belongs).

R=rsc, dvyukov, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7002049

This broke 'godoc net/http'.

TBR=adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7235052

R=golang-dev, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7229050