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<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>

<p>
The Go memory model specifies the conditions under which
reads of a variable in one goroutine can be guaranteed to
observe values produced by writes to the same variable in a different goroutine.
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<h3 id="data-offsets">Interacting with Go types and constants</h3>

<p>
If a package has any .s files, then <code>go build</code> will direct
the compiler to emit a special header called <code>go_asm.h</code>,
which the .s files can then <code>#include</code>.
The file contains symbolic <code>#define</code> constants for the
offsets of Go struct fields, the sizes of Go struct types, and most