Go Bootstrapping

Briefly describe the bootstrapping process of a go executable.

Answer

Run the platform-specific assembly that is located under $GOROOT/src/runtime/
runtime·args(): Parse terminal arguments
runtime·osinit(): Initialize CPU cores
runtime·schedinit(): Initialize goroutine scheduler, stack memory, terminal arguments, environment variables, debug parameter, gc, GOMAXPROCS, ...
runtime·mstart(): Start gc monitor, enable gc, import dependencies and run init() functions, finally run main.main()