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This change was necessary on the dev.garbage branch to keep the garbage collector from seeing pointers into invalid heap areas. On this default (Go 1.4) branch, the change removes some possibility for memory leaks. LGTM=khr R=golang-codereviews, khr CC=golang-codereviews, iant, r, rlh https://golang.org/cl/155760043
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directory (the one containing this README). You can omit the
variable if you unpack it into /usr/local/go, or if you rebuild
from sources by running all.bash (see doc/install.html).
You should also add the Go binary directory $GOROOT/bin
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For example, if you extracted the tar file into $HOME/go, you might
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export GOROOT=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
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