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<h2 id="introduction">DRAFT RELEASE NOTES — Introduction to Go 1.22</h2>

<code>byte</code>, which is an <a href="#Alias_declarations">alias</a> for <code>uint8</code>, and
<code>rune</code>, which is an alias for <code>int32</code>.
Explicit conversions
are required when different numeric types are mixed in an expression
or assignment. For instance, <code>int32</code> and <code>int</code>
are not the same type even though they may have the same size on a
particular architecture.
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These modes accept only 1, 2, 4, and 8 as scale factors.
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When using the compiler and assembler's
<code>-dynlink</code> or <code>-shared</code> modes,
any load or store of a fixed memory location such as a global variable
must be assumed to overwrite <code>CX</code>.
Therefore, to be safe for use with these modes,
assembly sources should typically avoid CX except between memory references.
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<h3 id="Min_and_max">Min and max</h3>

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The built-in functions <code>min</code> and <code>max</code> compute the
smallest&mdash;or largest, respectively&mdash;value of a fixed number of
arguments of <a href="#Comparison_operators">ordered types</a>.
There must be at least one argument
[<a href="#Go_1.21">Go 1.21</a>].
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