// Copyright 2009 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.

/*

8g is the version of the gc compiler for the x86,
referred to by these tools for historical reasons as 386.

It reads .go files and outputs .8 files. The flags are documented in ../gc/doc.go.

There is no instruction optimizer, so the -N flag is a no-op.

*/
package documentation
