the (possibly multi-byte) UTF-8 encoding of individual <i>characters</i>.
Thus inside a string literal <code>\377</code> and <code>\xFF</code> represent
a single byte of value <code>0xFF</code>=255, while <code>ÿ</code>,
<code>\u00FF</code>, <code>\U000000FF</code> and <code>\xc3\xbf</code> represent
the two bytes <code>0xc3</code> <code>0xbf</code> of the UTF-8 encoding of character
U+00FF.
</p>

<pre class="ebnf">

(The architecture-independent <code>AXXX</code>, defined in the
<code>cmd/internal/obj</code> package,
represents an invalid instruction).
The sequence of the <code>A</code> names has nothing to do with the actual
encoding of the machine instructions.
The <code>cmd/internal/obj</code> package takes care of that detail.
</p>

<p>
The instructions for both the 386 and AMD64 architectures are listed in

the (possibly multi-byte) UTF-8 encoding of individual <i>characters</i>.
Thus inside a string literal <code>\377</code> and <code>\xFF</code> represent
a single byte of value <code>0xFF</code>=255, while <code>ÿ</code>,
<code>\u00FF</code>, <code>\U000000FF</code> and <code>\xc3\xbf</code> represent
the two bytes <code>0xc3</code> <code>0xbf</code> of the UTF-8 encoding of character
U+00FF.
</p>

<pre class="ebnf">