</p>

<pre class="ebnf">
ChannelType = ( "chan" | "chan" "&lt;-" | "&lt;-" "chan" ) ElementType .
</pre>

<p>
The optional <code>&lt;-</code> operator specifies the channel <i>direction</i>,
<i>send</i> or <i>receive</i>. If no direction is given, the channel is
<i>bidirectional</i>.
A channel may be constrained only to send or only to receive by
<a href="#Assignments">assignment</a> or

<p>
Global data symbols are defined by a sequence of initializing
<code>DATA</code> directives followed by a <code>GLOBL</code> directive.
Each <code>DATA</code> directive initializes a section of the
corresponding memory.
The memory not explicitly initialized is zeroed.
The general form of the <code>DATA</code> directive is

<pre>
DATA	symbol+offset(SB)/width, value
</pre>

<p>

<pre class="ebnf">
ChannelType = ( "chan" | "chan" "&lt;-" | "&lt;-" "chan" ) ElementType .
</pre>

<p>
The optional <code>&lt;-</code> operator specifies the channel <i>direction</i>,
<i>send</i> or <i>receive</i>. If a direction is given, the channel is <i>directional</i>,
otherwise it is <i>bidirectional</i>.
A channel may be constrained only to send or only to receive by
<a href="#Assignment_statements">assignment</a> or