This trivial patch to the Go library fixes calling make on a slice of
elements whose size is zero. Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
Ian
diff -r ce7423ad4e50 libgo/runtime/go-make-slice.c
--- a/libgo/runtime/go-make-slice.c Tue Sep 20 13:57:32 2011 -0700
+++ b/libgo/runtime/go-make-slice.c Tue Sep 20 14:52:13 2011 -0700
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
icap = (int) cap;
if (cap < len
|| (uintptr_t) icap != cap
- || cap > (uintptr_t) -1U / std->__element_type->__size)
+ || (std->__element_type->__size > 0
+ && cap > (uintptr_t) -1U / std->__element_type->__size))
__go_panic_msg ("makeslice: cap out of range");
ret.__count = ilen;