This patch by Chris Manghane fixes the Go frontend to not crash on an invalid array type declaration that is not otherwise used. This fixes https://golang.org/issue/12937. Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
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Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE =================================================================== --- gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (revision 232855) +++ gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -731941c155214d6158fa800e52ab3225c0b55f73 +721c778adb8f99d8a6b7795dbad86013ccc9ba91 The first line of this file holds the git revision number of the last merge done from the gofrontend repository. Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/gogo.cc =================================================================== --- gcc/go/gofrontend/gogo.cc (revision 232239) +++ gcc/go/gofrontend/gogo.cc (working copy) @@ -2699,6 +2699,15 @@ Gogo::lower_parse_tree() { Lower_parse_tree lower_parse_tree(this, NULL); this->traverse(&lower_parse_tree); + + // There might be type definitions that involve expressions such as the + // array length. Make sure to lower these expressions as well. Otherwise, + // errors hidden within a type can introduce unexpected errors into later + // passes. + for (std::vector<Type*>::iterator p = this->verify_types_.begin(); + p != this->verify_types_.end(); + ++p) + Type::traverse(*p, &lower_parse_tree); } // Lower a block.