I committed this patch to wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-7/changes.html to describe the status of Go in the GCC 7 release.
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Index: changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-7/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.65 diff -u -r1.65 changes.html --- changes.html 19 Feb 2017 21:55:56 -0000 1.65 +++ changes.html 24 Feb 2017 05:18:33 -0000 @@ -749,7 +749,20 @@ <li>Improved diagnostics (polymorphic results in pure functions).</li> </ul> -<!-- <h3 id="go">Go</h3> --> +<h3 id="go">Go</h3> +<ul> + <li>GCC 7 provides a complete implementation of the Go 1.8 + user packages.</li> + + <li>Compared to the Go 1.8 toolchain, the garbage collector is more + conservative and less concurrent.</li> + + <li>Escape analysis is available for experimental use via + the <code>-fgo-optimize-allocs</code> option. + The <code>-fgo-debug-escape</code> prints information useful for + debugging escape analysis choices.</li> + +</ul> <h3 id="java">Java (GCJ)</h3> <p>The GCC Java frontend and associated libjava runtime library have been