package main

/*
Implementation details.

Cgo provides a way for Go programs to call C code linked into the same
address space. This comment explains the operation of cgo.

Cgo reads a set of Go source files and looks for statements saying
import "C". If the import has a doc comment, that comment is
taken as literal C code to be used as a preamble to any C code
generated by cgo. A typical preamble #includes necessary definitions:

<p>
A "select" statement chooses which of a set of possible
<a href="#Send_statements">send</a> or
<a href="#Receive_operator">receive</a>
operations will proceed.
It looks similar to a
<a href="#Switch_statements">"switch"</a> statement but with the
cases all referring to communication operations.
</p>

<pre class="ebnf">
SelectStmt = "select" "{" { CommClause } "}" .

Go 1.20 introduced automatic seeding of the
[`math/rand`](/pkg/math/rand) global random number generator,
controlled by the [`randautoseed` setting](/pkg/math/rand/#Seed).

Go 1.20 introduced the concept of fallback roots for use during certificate verification,
controlled by the [`x509usefallbackroots` setting](/pkg/crypto/x509/#SetFallbackRoots).

Go 1.20 removed the preinstalled `.a` files for the standard library
from the Go distribution.

</pre>

<h3 id="Type_parameter_declarations">Type parameter declarations</h3>

<p>
A type parameter list declares the <i>type parameters</i> of a generic function or type declaration.
The type parameter list looks like an ordinary <a href="#Function_types">function parameter list</a>
except that the type parameter names must all be present and the list is enclosed
in square brackets rather than parentheses

			//
			// In order to continue reading tar files created by former, buggy
			// versions of Go, we skeptically parse the atime and ctime fields.
			// If we are unable to parse them and the prefix field looks like
			// an ASCII string, then we fallback on the pre-Go1.8 behavior
			// of treating these fields as the USTAR prefix field.
			//
			// Note that this will not use the fallback logic for all possible