$ cat x.go
package main

var x []byte

func main() {
	for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
		print(".")
		x = make([]byte, 1600e6)
	}
	println(x)
}
$ GOARCH=386 go run x.go
..fatal error: slice bounds out of range

runtime stack:
runtime.throw(0x80b1f3c, 0x19)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/panic.go:1114 +0x6a
runtime.panicCheck1(0x8067029, 0x80b1f3c, 0x19)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/panic.go:34 +0xb9
runtime.goPanicSliceBU(0x35d, 0xd9)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/panic.go:119 +0x37
runtime.(*pageAlloc).update(0x8103de4, 0xd7000000, 0x2fc00, 0x1)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/mpagealloc.go:430 +0x479
runtime.(*pageAlloc).grow(0x8103de4, 0xd7000000, 0x5f800000)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/mpagealloc.go:394 +0x175
runtime.(*mheap).grow(0x8103de0, 0x2faf1, 0x0)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/mheap.go:1336 +0x81
runtime.(*mheap).allocSpan(0x8103de0, 0x2faf1, 0x100, 0x81130e8, 0x5744ff84)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/mheap.go:1124 +0x5df
runtime.(*mheap).alloc.func1()
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/mheap.go:871 +0x4c
runtime.(*mheap).alloc(0x8103de0, 0x2faf1, 0x8090101, 0x574000e0)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/mheap.go:865 +0x63
runtime.largeAlloc(0x5f5e1000, 0x57410101, 0x1)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/malloc.go:1163 +0x76
runtime.mallocgc.func1()
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/malloc.go:1058 +0x39
runtime.systemstack(0x57400540)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/asm_386.s:395 +0x53
runtime.mstart()
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/proc.go:1078

goroutine 1 [running]:
runtime.systemstack_switch()
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/asm_386.s:356 fp=0x5743a748 sp=0x5743a744 pc=0x8094da0
runtime.mallocgc(0x5f5e1000, 0x80a4160, 0x8071401, 0x8112324)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/malloc.go:1057 +0x6a7 fp=0x5743a79c sp=0x5743a748 pc=0x8051727
runtime.makeslice(0x80a4160, 0x5f5e1000, 0x5f5e1000, 0x77800000)
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/slice.go:49 +0x4f fp=0x5743a7b0 sp=0x5743a79c pc=0x80828ef
main.main()
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/x.go:8 +0x6b fp=0x5743a7c8 sp=0x5743a7b0 pc=0x809934b
runtime.main()
	/usr/local/google/home/rsc/go/src/runtime/proc.go:204 +0x1fd fp=0x5743a7f0 sp=0x5743a7c8 pc=0x807221d
runtime.goexit()
exit status 2
$