</p>

<p>
Reads of memory locations larger than a single machine word
are encouraged but not required to meet the same semantics
as word-sized memory locations,
observing a single allowed write <i>w</i>.
For performance reasons,
implementations may instead treat larger operations
as a set of individual machine-word-sized operations
in an unspecified order.

      However, some non-deprecated functionality requires use of the <code>syscall</code> package, such as the <a href="/pkg/os/exec#Cmd"><code>os/exec.Cmd.SysProcAttr</code></a> field.
      To avoid unnecessary complaints on such code, the <code>syscall</code> package is no longer marked as deprecated.

If both <code>n</code> and <code>m</code> are provided and are constant, then
<code>n</code> must be no larger than <code>m</code>.
If <code>n</code> is negative or larger than <code>m</code> at run time,
a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a> occurs.
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<pre>
s := make([]int, 10, 100)       // slice with len(s) == 10, cap(s) == 100

If both <code>n</code> and <code>m</code> are provided and are constant, then
<code>n</code> must be no larger than <code>m</code>.
For slices and channels, if <code>n</code> is negative or larger than <code>m</code> at run time,
a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a> occurs.
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</p>

<p>
A data symbol marked with the <code>NOPTR</code> flag (see above)
is treated as containing no pointers to runtime-allocated data.
A data symbol with the <code>RODATA</code> flag
is allocated in read-only memory and is therefore treated
as implicitly marked <code>NOPTR</code>.
A data symbol with a total size smaller than a pointer
is also treated as implicitly marked <code>NOPTR</code>.