literal.
</p>


<h2 id="Constants">Constants</h2>

<p>There are <i>boolean constants</i>,
<i>rune constants</i>,
<i>integer constants</i>,
<i>floating-point constants</i>, <i>complex constants</i>,
and <i>string constants</i>. Rune, integer, floating-point,
and complex constants are
collectively called <i>numeric constants</i>.
</p>

<p>
A constant value is represented by a

	MOV	$1234, 0(SP)			// ERROR "constant load must target register"
	MOV	$1234, 8(SP)			// ERROR "constant load must target register"
	MOV	$0, 0(SP)			// ERROR "constant load must target register"
	MOV	$0, 8(SP)			// ERROR "constant load must target register"
	MOV	$1234, 0(SP)			// ERROR "constant load must target register"
	MOV	$1234, 8(SP)			// ERROR "constant load must target register"

constant. It can do this by reading object files. If cgo has decided
that t1 is a type, v2 and v3 are variables or functions, and i4, i5
are integer constants, u6 is an unsigned integer constant, and f7 and f8
are float constants, and s9 and s10 are string constants, it generates:

	<preamble>
	__typeof__(t1) *__cgo__1;
	__typeof__(v2) *__cgo__2;
	__typeof__(v3) *__cgo__3;
	__typeof__(i4) *__cgo__4;

literal.
</p>


<h2 id="Constants">Constants</h2>

<p>There are <i>boolean constants</i>,
<i>rune constants</i>,
<i>integer constants</i>,
<i>floating-point constants</i>, <i>complex constants</i>,
and <i>string constants</i>. Rune, integer, floating-point,
and complex constants are
collectively called <i>numeric constants</i>.
</p>

<p>
A constant value is represented by a

	// Hex constant 0x80000001
	MOVW $2147483649, R5            // 6405800060a50001 or 0600800038a00001
	MOVD $2147483649, R5            // 6405800060a50001 or 0600800038a00001
	// Hex constant 0xFFFFFFFF80000001
	MOVD $-2147483647, R5           // 3ca0800060a50001 or 0603800038a00001
	// Hex constant 0xFFFFFFFE00000002 (load of constant on < power10, pli on >= power10

//	Channel: the number of elements queued (unread) in the channel buffer;
//	         if v is nil, len(v) is zero.
//
// For some arguments, such as a string literal or a simple array expression, the
// result can be a constant. See the Go language specification's "Length and
// capacity" section for details.
func len(v Type) int

// The cap built-in function returns the capacity of v, according to its type:
//

var sysStat func(fi fs.FileInfo, h *Header, doNameLookups bool) error

const (
	// Mode constants from the USTAR spec:
	// See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_06
	c_ISUID = 04000 // Set uid
	c_ISGID = 02000 // Set gid
	c_ISVTX = 01000 // Save text (sticky bit)

	// Common Unix mode constants; these are not defined in any common tar standard.

}

var listCache sync.Map // map[string]listImports, keyed by contextName

// listSem is a semaphore restricting concurrent invocations of 'go list'. 'go
// list' has its own internal concurrency, so we use a hard-coded constant (to
// allow the I/O-intensive phases of 'go list' to overlap) instead of scaling
// all the way up to GOMAXPROCS.
var listSem = make(chan semToken, 2)

type semToken struct{}

Now defines the symbol type constants [STT_RELC], [STT_SRELC], and