| This file lists things yet to be moved into go1.8.html or deemed too |
| minor to mention. Either way, delete from here when done. |
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| Tools: |
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| go: -buildmode=c-archive now builds PIC on ELF (CL 24180) |
| go: mobile pkg dir change, recommend using go list in scripts (CL 24930, CL 27929) |
| go, dist: can set default pkg-config tool using PKG_CONFIG env var (CL 29991) |
| go: can set secure/insecure GIT schemes using GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL env var (CL 30135) |
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| API additions and behavior changes: |
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| cmd/compile, runtime, etc: get rid of constant FP registers (CL 28095) |
| cmd/compile, runtime: add go:yeswritebarrierrec pragma (CL 30938) |
| cmd/compile/internal/gc: enable new parser by default (CL 27203) |
| cmd/compile/internal/syntax: fast Go syntax trees, initial commit (CL 27195) |
| cmd/compile: add compiler phase timing (CL 24462) |
| cmd/compile: add inline explainer (CL 22782) |
| cmd/compile: enable flag-specified dump of specific phase+function (CL 23044) |
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| cmd/internal/obj, cmd/link: darwin dynlink support (CL 29393) |
| cmd/internal/objfile: add ppc64/ppc64le disassembler support (CL 9682) |
| cmd/link, cmd/go: delay linking of mingwex and mingw32 until very end (CL 26670) |
| cmd/link: R_ADDR dynamic relocs for internal PIE (CL 29118) |
| cmd/link: add trampolines for too far calls in ppc64x (CL 30850) |
| cmd/link: allow internal PIE linking (CL 28543) |
| cmd/link: fix -X importpath.name=value when import path needs escaping (CL 31970) |
| cmd/link: fix -buildmode=pie / -linkshared combination (CL 28996) |
| cmd/link: for -buildmode=exe pass -no-pie to external linker (CL 33106) |
| cmd/link: insert trampolines for too-far jumps on ARM (CL 29397) |
| cmd/link: non-executable stack support for Solaris (CL 24142) |
| cmd/link: put text at address 0x1000000 on darwin/amd64 (CL 32185) |
| cmd/link: remove the -shared flag (CL 28852) |
| cmd/link: split large elf text sections on ppc64x (CL 27790) |
| cmd/link: trampoline support for external linking on ARM (CL 31143) |
| cmd/objdump: implement objdump of .o files (CL 24818) |
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| go/build: allow % in ${SRCDIR} expansion for Jenkins (CL 31611) |
| go/build: do not record go:binary-only-package if build tags not satisfied (CL 31577) |
| go/build: implement default GOPATH (CL 32019) |
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| runtime/race: update race runtime (CL 32160) |
| runtime: assume 64kB physical pages on ARM (CL 25021) |
| runtime: disable stack rescanning by default (CL 31766) |
| runtime: don't call cgocallback from signal handler (CL 30218) |
| runtime: fix check for vacuous page boundary rounding (CL 27230) |
| runtime: fix map iterator concurrent map check (CL 24749) |
| runtime: fix newextram PC passed to race detector (CL 29712) |
| runtime: implement unconditional hybrid barrier (CL 31765) |
| runtime: include pre-panic/throw logs in core dumps (CL 32013) |
| runtime: limit the number of map overflow buckets (CL 25049) |
| runtime: pass windows float syscall args via XMM (CL 32173) |
| runtime: print sigcode on signal crash (CL 32183) |
| runtime: record current PC for SIGPROF on non-Go thread (CL 30252) |
| runtime: sleep on CLOCK_MONOTONIC in futexsleep1 on freebsd (CL 30154) |
