Attempt 2. The first fix was much faster but ignored syntax errors.

benchmark                      old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkCodeEncoder            74993543     72982390   -2.68%
BenchmarkCodeMarshal            77811181     75610637   -2.83%
BenchmarkCodeDecoder           213337123    190144982  -10.87%
BenchmarkCodeUnmarshal         212180972    190394852  -10.27%
BenchmarkCodeUnmarshalReuse    202113428    182106660   -9.90%
BenchmarkUnmarshalString            1343          919  -31.57%
BenchmarkUnmarshalFloat64           1149          908  -20.97%
BenchmarkUnmarshalInt64              967          778  -19.54%
BenchmarkSkipValue              28851581     28414125   -1.52%

benchmark                       old MB/s     new MB/s  speedup
BenchmarkCodeEncoder               25.88        26.59    1.03x
BenchmarkCodeMarshal               24.94        25.66    1.03x
BenchmarkCodeDecoder                9.10        10.21    1.12x
BenchmarkCodeUnmarshal              9.15        10.19    1.11x
BenchmarkSkipValue                 69.05        70.11    1.02x

Fixes #3949.

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7231058

Generated by addca.

R=gobot
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7245045

The time to test all of math/big is now:
 default      => ~3min
 --test.short => 150ms

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7223054

Fixes #4724

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7225071

R=golang-dev, minux.ma, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7095067

R=golang-dev, minux.ma, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7235064

Fixes #4699.

R=golang-dev, agl
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7231065

This code never worked. Maybe it's not necessary?

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7225070

ICU and collate package: ICU requires strings to be in FCD form.
Not all NFC strings are in this form, leading to incorrect results.
Change to NFD instead.

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7201043

Export data was broken after revision 6b602ab487d6
when -l is specified at least 3 times: it makes the compiler
write out func (*T).Method() declarations in export data, which
is not supported.

Also fix the formatting of recover() in export data. It was
not treated like panic() and was rendered as "<node RECOVER>".

R=golang-dev, lvd, minux.ma, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7067051

Fixes #4264.

R=cldorian, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6845113

Handle return values from recvfrom correctly when the
kernel decides to not return an address.

Fixes #4636.
Fixes #4352.

R=rsc, mikioh.mikioh, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7058062

If os.OpenFile holds ForkLock on files that block opens,
then threads that simultaneously try to do fork-exec will
get hung up (until the open succeeds). Blocked opens are
common enough on Plan 9 that protecting against fd leaks
into fork-execs means not being able to do fork-execs
properly in the general case. Thus, we forgo taking the
lock.

R=rsc, ality
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7235066

An hostport of "[::1]" now results in the same error message
"missing port in address" as the hostport value "127.0.0.1",
so SplitHostPort won't complain about "too many colons
in address" anymore for an IPv6 address missing a port.

Added tests checking the error values.

Fixes #4526.

R=dave, rsc, mikioh.mikioh
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7038045

Generated by addca.

R=gobot
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7237057

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