no values to be appended to the slice, such as <code>slice = append(slice)</code>.
  Such a statement has no effect, and experience has shown that is nearly always a mistake.
</p>

<h4 id="vet-defers">New warnings for deferring <code>time.Since</code></h4>

<p><!-- CL 527095, https://go.dev/issue/60048: time.Since should not be used in defer statement -->
  The vet tool now reports a non-deferred call to

references to the virtual stack pointer from references to the architectural
<code>SP</code> register.
That is, <code>x-8(SP)</code> and <code>-8(SP)</code>
are different memory locations:
the first refers to the virtual stack pointer pseudo-register,
while the second refers to the
hardware's <code>SP</code> register.
</p>

<p>
On machines where <code>SP</code> and <code>PC</code> are
traditionally aliases for a physical, numbered register,