The Go language has a new type, rune, which is currently an alias for
int. In the future it will be an alias for int32. This type represents
a Unicode character. Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
Ian
diff -r b1a5c9a0b9ff go/gogo.cc
--- a/go/gogo.cc Wed Oct 26 21:55:17 2011 -0700
+++ b/go/gogo.cc Fri Oct 28 15:04:19 2011 -0700
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@
Named_object* byte_type = this->declare_type("byte", loc);
byte_type->set_type_value(uint8_type);
+ // "rune" is an alias for "int".
+ Named_object* rune_type = this->declare_type("rune", loc);
+ rune_type->set_type_value(int_type);
+
this->add_named_type(Type::make_integer_type("uintptr", true,
pointer_size,
RUNTIME_TYPE_KIND_UINTPTR));