runtime/race package contains the data race detector runtime library. It is based on ThreadSanitizer race detector, that is currently a part of the LLVM project. To update the .syso files you need to: $ svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/compiler-rt/trunk $ cd compiler-rt/lib/tsan/go $ ./buildgo.sh Tested with gcc 4.6.1 and 4.7.0. On Windows it's built with 64-bit MinGW. Current runtime is built on rev 215000.