The memory model is specified more formally in the next section.
</p>

<p>
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.

create a map with initial space to hold <code>n</code> map elements.
The precise behavior is implementation-dependent.
</p>


<h3 id="Appending_and_copying_slices">Appending to and copying slices</h3>

<p>
The built-in functions <code>append</code> and <code>copy</code> assist in
common slice operations.

<p>
The built-in functions do not have standard Go types,
so they can only appear in <a href="#Calls">call expressions</a>;
they cannot be used as function values.
</p>


<h3 id="Appending_and_copying_slices">Appending to and copying slices</h3>

<p>
The built-in functions <code>append</code> and <code>copy</code> assist in
common slice operations.