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by npongratz 3109 days ago
This is interesting. A citation that helps strengthen the explanation:

https://golang.org/doc/asm

"The most important thing to know about Go's assembler is that it is not a direct representation of the underlying machine. Some of the details map precisely to the machine, but some do not... The details vary with architecture, and we apologize for the imprecision; the situation is not well-defined."