type span struct {
		start int
		end   int
	}
	spans := make([]span, 0, 32)

	// Find the field start and end indices.
	// Doing this in a separate pass (rather than slicing the string s
	// and collecting the result substrings right away) is significantly
	// more efficient, possibly due to cache effects.
	start := -1 // valid span start if >= 0
	for i := 0; i < len(s); {

// converted to int they correspond to the rune size that was read.
type readOp int8

// Don't use iota for these, as the values need to correspond with the
// names and comments, which is easier to see when being explicit.
const (
	opRead      readOp = -1 // Any other read operation.
	opInvalid   readOp = 0  // Non-read operation.
	opReadRune1 readOp = 1  // Read rune of size 1.

	// An untyped nil does not need a pointer check, and when
	// _cgoCheckPointer returns the untyped nil the type assertion we
	// are going to insert will fail.  Easier to just skip nil arguments.
	// TODO: Note that this fails if nil is shadowed.
	if id, ok := arg.(*ast.Ident); ok && id.Name == "nil" {
		return false
	}

	return p.hasPointer(f, t, true)
}

			// walking the tree and copying it piecewise. If the directory tree
			// contains nested modules this could push a lot of unnecessary contents,
			// but for the golang.org/x repos it seems to be significantly (~2x)
			// faster than copying one file at a time (via filepath.WalkDir),
			// apparently due to high latency in 'adb' commands.
			if err := adb("push", modDir, deviceModDir); err != nil {
				return 0, err
			}
		} else {