In Go, if a switch statement omits the expression on which to switch, it is taken to be the constant "true". I was simply testing that the cases were boolean, which is not quite right, as it is valid to compare an empty interface against "true". This patch to the Go frontend fixes the problem. Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline and 4.7 branch.
Ian
diff -r f2c5d044661e go/statements.cc --- a/go/statements.cc Fri Sep 28 14:19:44 2012 -0700 +++ b/go/statements.cc Fri Sep 28 14:46:27 2012 -0700 @@ -3313,16 +3313,10 @@ p != this->cases_->end(); ++p) { - Expression* this_cond; - if (val_temp == NULL) - this_cond = *p; - else - { - Expression* ref = Expression::make_temporary_reference(val_temp, - loc); - this_cond = Expression::make_binary(OPERATOR_EQEQ, ref, *p, loc); - } - + Expression* ref = Expression::make_temporary_reference(val_temp, + loc); + Expression* this_cond = Expression::make_binary(OPERATOR_EQEQ, ref, + *p, loc); if (cond == NULL) cond = this_cond; else @@ -3866,15 +3860,12 @@ return Statement::make_statement(val, true); } - Temporary_statement* val_temp; - if (this->val_ == NULL) - val_temp = NULL; - else - { - // var val_temp VAL_TYPE = VAL - val_temp = Statement::make_temporary(NULL, this->val_, loc); - b->add_statement(val_temp); - } + // var val_temp VAL_TYPE = VAL + Expression* val = this->val_; + if (val == NULL) + val = Expression::make_boolean(true, loc); + Temporary_statement* val_temp = Statement::make_temporary(NULL, val, loc); + b->add_statement(val_temp); this->clauses_->lower(b, val_temp, this->break_label());