class.
</p>
<p>
  A consequence of this change is that some objects' addresses that were previously
  always aligned to a 16 byte (or higher) boundary will now only be aligned to an 8
  byte boundary.
  Some programs that use assembly instructions that require memory addresses to be
  more than 8-byte aligned and rely on the memory allocator's previous alignment behavior
  may break, but we expect such programs to be rare.

</pre>
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<li>
Converting a value of a string type to a slice of bytes type
yields a slice whose successive elements are the bytes of the string.

<pre>
[]byte("hellø")   // []byte{'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', '\xc3', '\xb8'}
[]byte("")        // []byte{}

MyBytes("hellø")  // []byte{'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', '\xc3', '\xb8'}
</pre>
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<li>

</p>

<pre>
s := make([]byte, 2, 4)

a0 := [0]byte(s)
a1 := [1]byte(s[1:])     // a1[0] == s[1]
a2 := [2]byte(s)         // a2[0] == s[0]
a4 := [4]byte(s)         // panics: len([4]byte) > len(s)

s0 := (*[0]byte)(s)      // s0 != nil
s1 := (*[1]byte)(s[1:])  // &amp;s1[0] == &amp;s[1]
s2 := (*[2]byte)(s)      // &amp;s2[0] == &amp;s[0]
s4 := (*[4]byte)(s)      // panics: len([4]byte) > len(s)

	MOVL	ptr+0(FP), AX
	TESTL	$7, AX
	JZ	2(PC)
	MOVL	0, AX // crash with nil ptr deref
	LEAL	ret_lo+4(FP), BX
	// MOVQ (%EAX), %MM0
	BYTE $0x0f; BYTE $0x6f; BYTE $0x00
	// MOVQ %MM0, 0(%EBX)
	BYTE $0x0f; BYTE $0x7f; BYTE $0x03
	// EMMS
	BYTE $0x0F; BYTE $0x77
	RET