heuristics; see <a href="https://go.dev/issue/61502">issue #61502</a> for
  more info and to provide feedback.
</p>

<h2 id="linker">Linker</h2>

<p><!-- CL 493136 -->
  The linker's <code>-s</code> and <code>-w</code> flags are now behave more
  consistently across all platforms.
  The <code>-w</code> flag suppresses DWARF debug information generation.

<h3 id="finalizer">Finalizers</h3>

<p>
The <a href="/pkg/runtime/"><code>runtime</code></a> package provides
a <code>SetFinalizer</code> function that adds a finalizer to be called when
a particular object is no longer reachable by the program.
A call to <code>SetFinalizer(x, f)</code> is synchronized before the finalization call <code>f(x)</code>.
</p>

<h3 id="more">Additional Mechanisms</h3>

<p>

are reserved by the compiler and linker.
</p>

<p>
<code>R10</code> points to the <code>g</code> (goroutine) structure.
Within assembler source code, this pointer must be referred to as <code>g</code>;
the name <code>R10</code> is not recognized.
</p>

<p>
To make it easier for people and compilers to write assembly, the ARM linker

</li>
</ul>

<h4 id="Go_1.17">Go 1.17</h4>
<ul>
<li>
A slice may be <a href="#Conversions">converted</a> to an array pointer if the slice and array element
types match, and the array is not longer than the slice.
</li>
<li>
The built-in <a href="#Package_unsafe">package <code>unsafe</code></a> includes the new functions
<code>Add</code> and <code>Slice</code>.
</li>
</ul>