It looks like it's just a local variable name.

/cc @ianlancetaylor

@bradfitz It looks like the symbol is generated by dumpasmhdr (/cmd/compile/internal/gc/export.go), which is equivalent to offsetof(g, stackguard0).

dumpasmhdr will generate go_asm.h which is included by the asm_{GOARCH}.s files.

You are asking where the assembler constant g_stackguard0 is defined? As you say, it's defined in go_asm.h, which is a generated file. It's not just g_stackguard0; it's all the TYPE_FIELD symbols used by the assembler files--g_sched, gobuf_sp, g_m, etc., etc. I just checked, and go_asm.h defines 1634 constants. I'm not sure how to make a comment for that that will help people looking for a specific symbol.

@ianlancetaylor @bradfitz Indeed, adding a comment does not help much as I thought (as I brought up the issue before I found out the answer). Maybe the assembler deserves a more capable language which won't need such kind of cleverness in the future.

Thanks for your responses and feel free to close the issue.