b = append(b, byte(c))
		}
	}
	return string(b)
}

type parser struct {
	err error // Last error seen
}

type formatter struct {
	err error // Last error seen
}

// parseString parses bytes as a NUL-terminated C-style string.
// If a NUL byte is not found then the whole slice is returned as a string.
func (*parser) parseString(b []byte) string {
	if i := bytes.IndexByte(b, 0); i >= 0 {

    validations:
      required: false

  - type: textarea
    id: learning-curve
    attributes:
      label: "Would this change make Go easier or harder to learn, and why?"

  - type: textarea
    id: cost-description
    attributes:
      label: "Cost Description"
      description: "What is the cost of this proposal? (Every language change has a cost)"

	for i, test := range tests {
		arch, ctxt := setArch(goarch)
		tokenizer := lex.NewTokenizer("", strings.NewReader(test.input+"\n"), nil)
		parser := NewParser(ctxt, arch, tokenizer)

		err := tryParse(t, func() {
			parser.Parse()
		})

		switch {
		case err == nil:
			t.Errorf("#%d: %q: want error %q; have none", i, test.input, test.error)
		case !strings.Contains(err.Error(), test.error):

	// difference that for some j, a[j]>b[j] and a[j+1]<b[j+1]. If the implementation
	// compares large chunks with wrong endianness, it gets wrong result.
	// no vector register is larger than 512 bytes for now
	const maxLength = 512
	a := make([]byte, maxLength)
	b := make([]byte, maxLength)
	// randomish but deterministic data. No 0 or 255.
	for i := 0; i < maxLength; i++ {

multiprecision library gmp's integer type mpz_t wrapped to look like
the Go package big's integer type Int.

This is a syntactically valid Go program—it can be parsed with the Go
parser and processed by godoc—but it is not compiled directly by gc.
Instead, a separate tool, cgo, processes it to produce three output
files.  The first two, 6g.go and 6c.c, are a Go source file for 6g and