# Contributing to Go

Go is an open source project.

It is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!

## Before filing an issue

If you are unsure whether you have found a bug, please consider asking in the [golang-nuts mailing
list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts) or [other forums](https://golang.org/help/) first. If

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The [GODEBUG History](#history) gives the exact defaults for each Go toolchain version.
For example, Go 1.21 introduces the `panicnil` setting,
controlling whether `panic(nil)` is allowed;
it defaults to `panicnil=0`, making `panic(nil)` a run-time error.
Using `panicnil=1` restores the behavior of Go 1.20 and earlier.

When compiling a work module or workspace that declares
an older Go version, the Go toolchain amends its defaults

in an assembly source file within the math/rand package implementation,
the package's Int function can be referred to as <code>·Int</code>.
This convention avoids the need to hard-code a package's import path in its
own source code, making it easier to move the code from one location to another.
</p>

<h3 id="directives">Directives</h3>

<p>
The assembler uses various directives to bind text and data to symbol names.

		}

		if cap(input) != 0 && unsafe.SliceData(input) == unsafe.SliceData(clone) {
			t.Errorf("Clone(%q) return value should not reference inputs backing memory.", input)
		}
	}

that for any call to a `Reset` or `Stop` method, no stale values
prepared before that call will be sent or received after the call.
Earlier versions of Go used channels with a one-element buffer,
making it difficult to use `Reset` and `Stop` correctly.
A visible effect of this change is that `len` and `cap` of timer channels
now returns 0 instead of 1, which may affect programs that

// upper case, giving priority to the special casing rules.
func ToUpperSpecial(c unicode.SpecialCase, s []byte) []byte {
	return Map(c.ToUpper, s)
}

// ToLowerSpecial treats s as UTF-8-encoded bytes and returns a copy with all the Unicode letters mapped to their
// lower case, giving priority to the special casing rules.
func ToLowerSpecial(c unicode.SpecialCase, s []byte) []byte {

// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// This input was created by taking the instruction productions in
// the old assembler's (6a's) grammar and hand-writing complete
// instructions for each rule, to guarantee we cover the same space.

#include "../../../../../runtime/textflag.h"

TEXT	foo(SB), DUPOK|NOSPLIT, $0

	c5 = len([10]float64{imag(z)})   // invalid: imag(z) is a (non-constant) function call
)
var z complex128
</pre>


<h3 id="Making_slices_maps_and_channels">Making slices, maps and channels</h3>

<p>
The built-in function <code>make</code> takes a type <code>T</code>,
optionally followed by a type-specific list of expressions.

		return 0
	}
	r, ok := p.registerReference(name)
	if !ok {
		return 0
	}
	reg := r - p.arch.Register["R0"]
	if reg < 0 {
		// Could happen for an architecture having other registers prefixed by R
		p.errorf("expected g or R0 through R15; found %s", name)
		return 0
	}
	return uint16(reg)
}

// Note: There are two changes in the expression handling here