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authorJosh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>2021-06-13 16:00:28 -0700
committerJosh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>2021-06-14 22:42:48 +0000
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doc/go1.17: assorted fixes
Change-Id: I64235ad920240de9e2414b9ee6f4cfc4006b2862 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/327709 Trust: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com> Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Do not send CLs removing the interior tags from such phrases.
</ul>
<p>
- These enhancements were added to simplify writing code that conforms
+ The package unsafe enhancements were added to simplify writing code that conforms
to <code>unsafe.Pointer</code>'s <a href="/pkg/unsafe/#Pointer">safety
rules</a>, but the rules remain unchanged. In particular, existing
programs that correctly use <code>unsafe.Pointer</code> remain
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ func Foo() bool {
These components were always interpreted as decimal, but some operating systems treat them as octal.
This mismatch could hypothetically lead to security issues if a Go application was used to validate IP addresses
which were then used in their original form with non-Go applications which interpreted components as octal. Generally,
- it is advisable to always re-encoded values after validation, which avoids this class of parser misalignment issues.
+ it is advisable to always re-encode values after validation, which avoids this class of parser misalignment issues.
</p>
</dd>
</dl><!-- net -->
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ func Foo() bool {
<dd>
<p><!-- CL 268020 -->
The <a href="/pkg/os/#File.WriteString"><code>File.WriteString</code></a> method
- has been optimized to no longer make a copy of the input string.
+ has been optimized to not make a copy of the input string.
</p>
</dd>
</dl><!-- os -->
@@ -812,6 +812,14 @@ func Foo() bool {
The <a href="/pkg/reflect/#ArrayOf"><code>ArrayOf</code></a> function now panics when
called with a negative length.
</p>
+
+ <p><!-- CL 301652 -->
+ Checking the <a href="/pkg/reflect/#Type"><code>Type.ConvertibleTo</code></a> method
+ is no longer sufficient to guarantee that a call to
+ <a href="/pkg/reflect/#Value.Convert"><code>Value.Convert</code></a> will not panic.
+ It may panic when converting `[]T` to `*[N]T` if the slice's length is less than N.
+ See the language changes section above.
+ </p>
</dd>
</dl><!-- reflect -->
@@ -838,7 +846,7 @@ func Foo() bool {
<dd>
<p><!-- CL 170079, CL 170080 -->
The <code>strconv</code> package now uses Ulf Adams's Ryƫ algorithm for formatting floating-point numbers.
- This algorithm improves performance on most inputs, and is more than 99% faster on worst-case inputs.
+ This algorithm improves performance on most inputs and is more than 99% faster on worst-case inputs.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 314775 -->