about Go pointers applies not just to pointer types, but also to other
types that include Go pointers.

All Go pointers passed to C must point to pinned Go memory. Go pointers
passed as function arguments to C functions have the memory they point to
implicitly pinned for the duration of the call. Go memory reachable from
these function arguments must be pinned as long as the C code has access

	<li>Give an error if unable to represent an integer constant
	    precisely.</li>

	<li>Give an error if unable to represent a floating-point or
	    complex constant due to overflow.</li>

	<li>Round to the nearest representable constant if unable to
	    represent a floating-point or complex constant due to limits
	    on precision.</li>
</ul>

<p>

	// Second, if ContentErr==nil, the content should match Content.
	// If content is large, an alternative to setting Content is to set File,
	// which names a file in the testdata/ directory containing the
	// uncompressed expected content.
	// If content is very large, an alternative to setting Content or File
	// is to set Size, which will then be checked against the header-reported size
	// but will bypass the decompressing of the actual data.

	}

	if string(bytes) != s {
		t.Errorf("%s: string(buf.Bytes()) == %q, s == %q", testname, string(bytes), s)
	}
}

// Fill buf through n writes of string fus.
// The initial contents of buf corresponds to the string s;
// the result is the final contents of buf returned as a string.
func fillString(t *testing.T, testname string, buf *Buffer, s string, n int, fus string) string {
	check(t, testname+" (fill 1)", buf, s)

API changes and other small changes to the standard library go here....

### Minor changes to the library {#minor_library_changes}...

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// uintptr is an integer type that is large enough to hold the bit pattern of
// any pointer.
type uintptr uintptr

// byte is an alias for uint8 and is equivalent to uint8 in all ways. It is
// used, by convention, to distinguish byte values from 8-bit unsigned
// integer values.
type byte = uint8

// rune is an alias for int32 and is equivalent to int32 in all ways. It is
// used, by convention, to distinguish character values from integer values.

# Release Notes

The `initial` and `next` subdirectories of this directory are for release notes.

## For developers

Release notes should be added to `next` by editing existing files or creating
new files. **Do not add RELNOTE=yes comments in CLs.** Instead, add a file to
the CL (or ask the author to do so).

At the end of the development cycle, the files will be merged by being
concatenated in sorted order by pathname. Files in the directory matching the

### Timer changes

Go 1.23 makes two significant changes to the implementation of
[time.Timer] and [time.Ticker].

First, `Timer`s and `Ticker`s that are no longer referred to by the program
become eligible for garbage collection immediately, even if their
`Stop` methods have not been called.
Earlier versions of Go did not collect unstopped `Timer`s until after
they had fired and never collected unstopped `Ticker`s.