<p>
Go approaches its memory model in much the same way as the rest of the language,
aiming to keep the semantics simple, understandable, and useful.
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

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
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which initializes the symbol memory at the given offset and width with the given value.