interface{ ~[]byte | myString }           // bytestring
</pre>

<p>
Note that <code>bytestring</code> is not a real type; it cannot be used to declare
variables or compose other types. It exists solely to describe the behavior of some
operations that read from a sequence of bytes, which may be a byte slice or a string.
</p>

<h3 id="Type_identity">Type identity</h3>

<p>

Starting with go1.19.txt, each API feature line must end in "#nnnnn"
giving the GitHub issue number of the proposal issue that accepted
the new API. This helps with our end-of-cycle audit of new APIs.
The same requirement applies to next/* (described below), which will
become a go1.XX.txt for XX >= 19.

The next/ directory contains the only files intended to be mutated.
Each file in that directory contains a list of features that may be added

	}
	type _C_mpz_t [1]_C___mpz_struct

and then replaces each occurrence of a type C.xxx with _C_xxx.

If xxx is data, cgo arranges for C.xxx to refer to the C variable,
with the type translated as described above.  To do this, cgo must
introduce a Go variable that points at the C variable (the linker can
be told to initialize this pointer).  For example, if the gmp library
provided

	mpz_t zero;

published in PLDI 2008.
The definition of data-race-free programs and the guarantee of sequential consistency
for race-free programs are equivalent to the ones in that work.
</p>

<p>
The memory model describes the requirements on program executions,
which are made up of goroutine executions,
which in turn are made up of memory operations.
</p>

<p>
A <i>memory operation</i> is modeled by four details:
</p>
<ul>

	var gnuLongName, gnuLongLink string

	// Externally, Next iterates through the tar archive as if it is a series of
	// files. Internally, the tar format often uses fake "files" to add meta
	// data that describes the next file. These meta data "files" should not
	// normally be visible to the outside. As such, this loop iterates through
	// one or more "header files" until it finds a "normal file".