What happens at link time depends on whether the final binary is linked
using the internal or external mode. If other packages are compiled in
"external only" mode, then the final link will be an external one.
Otherwise the link will be an internal one.

The linking directives are used according to the kind of final link
used.

In internal mode, cmd/link itself processes all the host object files, in

If you need to use a missing instruction, there are two ways to proceed.
One is to update the assembler to support that instruction, which is straightforward
but only worthwhile if it's likely the instruction will be used again.
Instead, for simple one-off cases, it's possible to use the <code>BYTE</code>
and <code>WORD</code> directives

because it documents the full list of known GODEBUG settings,
which are tied to a specific release.
-->

## Introduction {#intro}

Go's emphasis on backwards compatibility is one of its key strengths.
There are, however, times when we cannot maintain complete compatibility.
If code depends on buggy (including insecure) behavior,
then fixing the bug will break that code.

func (s sparseEntry) endOffset() int64 { return s.Offset + s.Length }

// A sparse file can be represented as either a sparseDatas or a sparseHoles.
// As long as the total size is known, they are equivalent and one can be
// converted to the other form and back. The various tar formats with sparse
// file support represent sparse files in the sparseDatas form. That is, they

		return "", "", nil, false // Might as well stop now.
	}
	word, cond = p.lex.Text(), ""
	operands = scratch[:0]
	// Zero or more comma-separated operands, one per loop.
	nesting := 0
	colon := -1
	for tok != '\n' && tok != ';' {
		// Process one operand.
		var items []lex.Token
		if cap(operands) > len(operands) {
			// Reuse scratch items slice.
			items = operands[:cap(operands)][len(operands)][:0]
		} else {

// arguments of [cmp.Ordered] types. There must be at least one argument.
// If T is a floating-point type and any of the arguments are NaNs,
// max will return NaN.
func max[T cmp.Ordered](x T, y ...T) T

// The min built-in function returns the smallest value of a fixed number of
// arguments of [cmp.Ordered] types. There must be at least one argument.
// If T is a floating-point type and any of the arguments are NaNs,

// A nil argument is equivalent to an empty slice.
func Compare(a, b []byte) int {
	return bytealg.Compare(a, b)
}

// explode splits s into a slice of UTF-8 sequences, one per Unicode code point (still slices of bytes),
// up to a maximum of n byte slices. Invalid UTF-8 sequences are chopped into individual bytes.
func explode(s []byte, n int) [][]byte {
	if n <= 0 || n > len(s) {
		n = len(s)
	}

at least one of which is non-synchronizing,
which are unordered by happens before
(that is, neither <i>r</i> happens before <i>w</i>
nor <i>w</i> happens before <i>r</i>).
</p>

<p>
A <i>write-write data race</i> on memory location <i>x</i>
consists of two write-like memory operations <i>w</i> and <i>w'</i> on <i>x</i>,
at least one of which is non-synchronizing,

	// files. Internally, the tar format often uses fake "files" to add meta
	// data that describes the next file. These meta data "files" should not
	// normally be visible to the outside. As such, this loop iterates through
	// one or more "header files" until it finds a "normal file".
	format := FormatUSTAR | FormatPAX | FormatGNU
	for {
		// Discard the remainder of the file and any padding.

	}
	if err := writer.Close(); err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}
	// Simple test to make sure PAX extensions are in effect
	if !bytes.Contains(buf.Bytes(), []byte("PaxHeaders.0")) {
		t.Fatal("Expected at least one PAX header to be written.")
	}
	// Test that we can get a long name back out of the archive.
	reader := NewReader(&buf)
	hdr, err = reader.Next()
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}
	if hdr.Name != longName {