This means that pprof will no longer report profiles on OS X.
That's unfortunate, but the profiles were often wrong and, worse,
it was difficult to tell whether the profile was wrong or not.

The workarounds were making the scheduler more complex,
possibly caused a deadlock (see issue 5519), and did not actually
deliver reliable results.

It may be possible for adventurous users to apply a patch to
their kernels to get working results, or perhaps having no results
will encourage someone to do the work of creating a profiling
thread like on Windows. Issue 6047 has details.

Fixes #5519.
Fixes #6047.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12429045

Uglier.

««« original CL description
all: use strings.IndexByte instead of Index where possible

R=golang-dev, khr
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12486043
»»»

R=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12485044

R=golang-dev, khr
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12486043

Fixes #5372.
Fixes #5577.

R=gri, rsc, bradfitz, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12265043

This means that in the common case (modern kernel), we only
make 1 system call to dup instead of two, and we also avoid
grabbing the syscall.ForkLock.

R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12476043

you do reflect.call with too big an argument list.
Not worth the hassle.

Fixes #6023
Fixes #6033

R=golang-dev, bradfitz, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12485043

Fixes #3751

R=golang-dev, khr
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12483043

Fixes #4963.

Sets the append crossover to 0 on intel platforms.

Results for linux/amd64 Core i5 SNB

benchmark                     old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkAppend                     102          104   +1.96%
BenchmarkAppend1Byte                 10           11   +0.92%
BenchmarkAppend4Bytes                15           11  -28.10%
BenchmarkAppend7Bytes                17           12  -32.58%
BenchmarkAppend8Bytes                18           12  -36.17%
BenchmarkAppend15Bytes               24           11  -55.02%
BenchmarkAppend16Bytes               25           11  -56.03%
BenchmarkAppend32Bytes               11           12   +4.31%
BenchmarkAppendStr1Byte               8            9  +13.99%
BenchmarkAppendStr4Bytes             11            9  -17.52%
BenchmarkAppendStr8Bytes             14            9  -35.70%
BenchmarkAppendStr16Bytes            21            9  -55.19%
BenchmarkAppendStr32Bytes            10           10   -5.66%
BenchmarkAppendSpecialCase           49           52   +7.96%

Results for linux/386 Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz

benchmark                     old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkAppend                     219          218   -0.46%
BenchmarkAppend1Byte                 75           72   -3.44%
BenchmarkAppend4Bytes                92           73  -19.87%
BenchmarkAppend7Bytes               108           74  -31.20%
BenchmarkAppend8Bytes               116           74  -35.95%
BenchmarkAppend15Bytes              162           77  -52.22%
BenchmarkAppend16Bytes              169           77  -54.20%
BenchmarkAppend32Bytes               88           86   -2.38%
BenchmarkAppendStr1Byte              57           59   +3.32%
BenchmarkAppendStr4Bytes             72           59  -17.40%
BenchmarkAppendStr8Bytes             92           60  -34.70%
BenchmarkAppendStr16Bytes           141           63  -54.89%
BenchmarkAppendStr32Bytes            75           73   -2.64%
BenchmarkAppendSpecialCase          270          270   +0.00%

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12440044

For normal slices a[i:j] we're generating 3 bounds
checks: j<={len(string),cap(slice)}, j<=j (!), and i<=j.
Somehow snuck in as part of the [i:j:k] implementation
where the second check does something.
Remove the second check when we don't need it.

R=rsc, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12311046

Update #5910.

R=golang-dev, daniel.morsing, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11373044

While we're here, add a test for the same functionality in gzip,
which was already implemented, and add bzip2 CRC checks.

Fixes #5772.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12387044

It's still easy to turn off, but the builders are happy.
Also document.

R=golang-dev, iant, dvyukov
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12371043

Break all 386 builders.

««« original CL description
runtime: use gcpc/gcsp during traceback of goroutines in syscalls
gcpc/gcsp are used by GC in similar situation.
gcpc/gcsp are also more stable than gp->sched,
because gp->sched is mutated by entersyscall/exitsyscall
in morestack and mcall. So it has higher chances of being inconsistent.
Also, rename gcpc/gcsp to syscallpc/syscallsp.

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12250043
»»»

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12424045

Fixes #4807

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12349044

It was needed for the old scheduler,
because there temporary could be more threads than gomaxprocs.
In the new scheduler gomaxprocs is always respected.

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12438043

gcpc/gcsp are used by GC in similar situation.
gcpc/gcsp are also more stable than gp->sched,
because gp->sched is mutated by entersyscall/exitsyscall
in morestack and mcall. So it has higher chances of being inconsistent.
Also, rename gcpc/gcsp to syscallpc/syscallsp.

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12250043

GCM is Galois Counter Mode, an authenticated encryption mode that is,
nearly always, used with AES.

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12375043

In the event that code tries to use a hash function that isn't compiled
in and panics, give the developer a fighting chance of figuring out
which hash function it needed.

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12420045

Fixes #6045.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12463043

Fixes #6025.

R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12387046

Fixes #5785.

R=golang-dev, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/10587043

Fixes #6003.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12387045

Avoids seeing "Janet" as "Januaryet".

Fixes #6020.

R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12448044

Blockingsyscall was used in net package on windows,
it's not used anymore.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12436043

Remove dead code related to allocation of type metadata with SysAlloc.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12311045

Runtime netpoll supports at most one read waiter
and at most one write waiter. It's responsibility
of net package to ensure that. Currently windows
implementation allows more than one waiter in Accept.
It leads to "fatal error: netpollblock: double wait".

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12400045

Whether the keys are concatenated or separate (or a mixture) depends on the server.

Fixes #5979.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12433043

Windows dynamic priority boosting assumes that a process has different types
of dedicated threads -- GUI, IO, computational, etc. Go processes use
equivalent threads that all do a mix of GUI, IO, computations, etc.
In such context dynamic priority boosting does nothing but harm, so turn it off.
In particular, if 2 goroutines do heavy IO on a server uniprocessor machine,
windows rejects to schedule timer thread for 2+ seconds when priority boosting is enabled.
Fixes #5971.

R=alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12406043

The test isn't checking deliberate panics so catching them just makes the code longer.

R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12420043

Fixes #5982.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12387043

Generated by addca.

R=gobot
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12419043

Update #5764

R=golang-dev, dave, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12388043

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12404043

R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12396043

This CL makes IPAddr, UDPAddr and TCPAddr implement sockaddr
interface, UnixAddr is already sockaddr interface compliant, and
reduces unnecessary conversions between net.Addr, net.sockaddr and
syscall.Sockaddr.

This is in preparation for runtime-integrated network pollster for BSD
variants.

Update #5199

R=golang-dev, dave, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12010043

Update #3610
Update #5267
Update #5707

R=golang-dev, bradfitz, dave, fvbommel
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11958043

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12320045

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12351045

This was missed in c3b45d0dc5c0

R=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12379043

Also, add a meaningful error message when an encoding which
can't be parsed is found.

Fixes #5801.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12343043