use a synchronization mechanism such as a lock or channel
communication to establish a relative ordering.
</p>

<h3 id="chan">Channel communication</h3>

<p>
Channel communication is the main method of synchronization
between goroutines.  Each send on a particular channel
is matched to a corresponding receive from that channel,
usually in a different goroutine.
</p>

<p class="rule">

Go assembly should avoid making assumptions about the layout of Go
types and instead use these constants.
This improves the readability of assembly code, and keeps it robust to
changes in data layout either in the Go type definitions or in the
layout rules used by the Go compiler.
</p>

<p>
Constants are of the form <code>const_<i>name</i></code>.