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## [Golang defer in ASM (2025-09-02)](https://pluralist.net/t/golang-defer-in-asm-2025-09-02/313)

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**Author:** [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\
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**Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 5:22am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/golang-defer-in-asm-2025-09-02/313 "2025-09-02T05:22:01Z")

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This is the beginning of an exploration of what Golang’s defer keyword does to the final ASM produced by our Go compiler. We are using Godbolt.org for this. Without defer: package p import "fmt" func square(x int) i…