This section gives a general overview of the approach and should suffice for most programmers.
The memory model is specified more formally in the next section.
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A data race is defined as
a write to a memory location happening concurrently with another read or write to that same location,
unless all the accesses involved are atomic data accesses as provided by the <code>sync/atomic</code> package.

is also treated as implicitly marked <code>NOPTR</code>.
It is not possible to define a symbol containing pointers in an assembly source file;
such a symbol must be defined in a Go source file instead.
Assembly source can still refer to the symbol by name
even without <code>DATA</code> and <code>GLOBL</code> directives.
A good general rule of thumb is to define all non-<code>RODATA</code>
symbols in Go instead of in assembly.
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