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runtime/race: adding support for the race detector on other platforms

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#19,273 opened on Feb 24, 2017

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Hi Everyone,

Following on from this discussion on the golang-nuts list, about supporting the race detector on ARM hardware, I'm opening this issue to track the suggestion.

The ThreadSanitizer that the Go race detector is based on supports x86_64, aarch64 (i.e.Arm8 64-bit), mips64 and powerpc64. Currently Go only supports the race detector on x86_64 hardware.

Would it be possible for a future release of Go to support the race detector on the other platforms - aarch64, mips64 and powerpc64.

Thanks

Owen

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Investigate the ThreadSanitizer library support for aarch64, mips64, and powerpc64, and plan the necessary changes in the Go runtime to enable the race detector on those architectures.
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