Today, 'go build -a my/pkg' and 'go install -a my/pkg'
recompile not just my/pkg and all its dependencies that
you wrote but also the standard library packages.
Recompiling the standard library is problematic on
some systems because the installed copy is not writable.

The -a behavior means that you can't use 'go install -a all'
or 'go install -a my/...' to rebuild everything after a Go
release - the rebuild stops early when it cannot overwrite
the installed standard library.

During development work, however, you do want install -a
to rebuild everything, because anything might have changed.

Resolve the conflict by making the behavior of -a depend
on whether we are using a released copy of Go or a devel copy.
In the release copies, -a no longer applies to the standard library.
In the devel copies, it still does.

This is the latest in a long line of refinements to the
"do I build this or not" logic. It is surely not the last.

Fixes #8290.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r, tracey.brendan
CC=adg, golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/151730045

CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/143650043

Fixes #8130.

LGTM=rsc
R=golang-codereviews, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/143200043

This fixes the test/linkx.go test, which does not run by default.
(Issue 4139 is about fixing that.)

Fixes #8806.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=bradfitz, golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/145420043

Also rebuild doc.go; was stale, so contains extra changes.

Fixes #8677.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/148170043

While we are here, remove undocumented, meaningless test -file flag.

Fixes #7724.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/149070043

Fix by atom (from CL 89190044), comment and test by me.

Fixes #6823.

LGTM=crawshaw
R=golang-codereviews, crawshaw
CC=0xe2.0x9a.0x9b, adg, golang-codereviews, iant, r
https://golang.org/cl/148180043

If you say 'go get -v' you get extra information when import
paths are not of the expected form.

If you say 'go get -v src/rsc.io/pdf' the message says that
src/rsc.io/pdf does not contain a hostname, which is incorrect.
The problem is that it does not begin with a hostname.

Fixes #7432.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=bradfitz, golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/144650043

If you do 'go get -u rsc.io/pdf' and then rsc.io/pdf's redirect
changes to point somewhere else, after this CL a later
'go get -u rsc.io/pdf' will tell you that.

Fixes #8548.

LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=adg, golang-codereviews, n13m3y3r, r
https://golang.org/cl/147170043

The pattern was only working if the checkout had
already been done, but the code was trying to make
it work even the first time. Test and fix.

Fixes #8335.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/146310043

LGTM=r
R=r, adg, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/148080043

LGTM=r
R=r, rsc, iant, agl
https://golang.org/cl/142650045

LGTM=r
R=r, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/150100044

I'd rather delete the file but I doubt that will be popular.

LGTM=adg
R=golang-codereviews, adg
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/150100043

LGTM=ruiu
R=golang-codereviews, ruiu
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/146320043

Fixes #8084.

LGTM=ruiu
R=golang-codereviews, ruiu
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/142710043

LGTM=0intro
R=golang-codereviews, 0intro
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/150960043

Fixes #8242.

LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/147150043

Fixes #7834.

LGTM=iant, rsc, r
R=r, rsc, iant, ken
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/148940044

Fixes #7886.

LGTM=iant, r, rsc
R=r, iant, rsc, ken
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/149010043

Fixes #8672.

LGTM=rsc
R=golang-codereviews, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/145390043

LGTM=bradfitz, josharian, adg, rsc
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz, josharian, rsc, adg
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/141340043

Fixes #7200.

LGTM=gri, iant
R=golang-codereviews, gri, iant
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/150020044

Fixes #8311.

LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/146270043

Fixes #8507.

LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/144560043

Need to restore the g register.  Somehow this line vaporized from
CL 144130043.  Also cgo_topofstack -> _cgo_topofstack, that vaporized also.

TBR=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/150940044

During a cgo call, the stack can be copied.  This copy invalidates
the pointer that cgo has into the return value area.  To fix this
problem, pass the address of the location containing the stack
top value (which is in the G struct).  For cgo functions which
return values, read the stktop before and after the cgo call to
compute the adjustment necessary to write the return value.

Fixes #8771

LGTM=iant, rsc
R=iant, rsc, khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/144130043

LGTM=adg
R=adg
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/142650043

attribute values, a la RFC 6265 section 4.1.1 "Syntax".

Fixes #7751.

LGTM=dr.volker.dobler
R=dr.volker.dobler
CC=bradfitz, golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/148890043

Fixes #8724

LGTM=adg
R=adg
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/148040043

Fixes #6181

LGTM=adg
R=adg
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/148980043

Not sure why they used empty.s and all these other
packages were special cased in cmd/go instead.
Add them to the list.

This avoids problems with net .s files being compiled
with gcc in cgo mode and gcc not supporting // comments
on ARM.

Not a problem with bytes, but be consistent.

The last change fixed the ARM build but broke the Windows build.
Maybe *this* will make everyone happy. Sigh.

TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/144530046

In cgo mode it gets passed to gcc, and on ARM
it appears that gcc does not support // comments.

TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/142640043

Fixes linux builds (_vdso); may fix others.
I can at least cross-compile cmd/go for every
implemented system now.

TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/142630043

Should fix the Windows build. Untested.

on Windows, args are made by src/os/exec_windows.go, not package runtime.
runtime·goargs has if(Windows) return;

The two init funcs in pkg os were conflicting, with the second
overwriting Args back to an empty slice.

LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/143540044

Fixes (or makes better) various builds.

TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/146280043

Fixes #8788.

LGTM=iant
R=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/142470043

Corrections due to new strict type rules for data+bss.
Also disable misc/cgo/cdefstest since you can't compile C code anymore.

TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/148050044

Previous behavior was undocumented and inconsistent. Now it is documented
and consistent and measures the input size, since that makes more sense
when talking about %q and %x. For %s the change has no effect.

Fixes #8151.

LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/144540044

In linker, refuse to write conservative (array of pointers) as the
garbage collection type for any variable in the data/bss GC program.

In the linker, attach the Go type to an already-read C declaration
during dedup. This gives us Go types for C globals for free as long
as the cmd/dist-generated Go code contains the declaration.
(Most runtime C declarations have a corresponding Go declaration.
Both are bss declarations and so the linker dedups them.)

In cmd/dist, add a few more C files to the auto-Go-declaration list
in order to get Go type information for the C declarations into the linker.

In C compiler, mark all non-pointer-containing global declarations
and all string data as NOPTR. This allows them to exist in C files
without any corresponding Go declaration. Count C function pointers
as "non-pointer-containing", since we have no heap-allocated C functions.

In runtime, add NOPTR to the remaining pointer-containing declarations,
none of which refer to Go heap objects.

In runtime, also move os.Args and syscall.envs data into runtime-owned
variables. Otherwise, in programs that do not import os or syscall, the
runtime variables named os.Args and syscall.envs will be missing type
information.

I believe that this CL eliminates the final source of conservative GC scanning
in non-SWIG Go programs, and therefore...

Fixes #909.

LGTM=iant
R=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/149770043