Sorry for the delay in responding.  Filed as
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32579.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:21 AM Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 9:14 PM Neil Schellenberger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > When upgrading our build container from 1.11.10 to 1.12.5, some of our
> tests failed in a surprising way.  I've boiled down the issue to this short
> example code fragment.
> >
> > package main
> >
> > // #include <string.h>
> > // struct S { unsigned char data[18]; };
> > import "C"
> > import "unsafe"
> >
> > func main() {
> > var array [5]C.struct_S
> > for i := range array {
> > C.memset(unsafe.Pointer(&array[i].data[0]), 0xff, C.sizeof_struct_S)
> > }
> > for i := range array {
> > for j := range array[i].data {
> > if array[i].data[j] != C.uchar(0xff) {
> > panic("oops")
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Under 1.11 this runs to completion; under 1.12 it panics.
> >
> > Debugging and instrumenting shows that the problem is the first argument
> to memset is not what one would expect when run under 1.12.  (The address
> of a heap temporary copy rather than the original perhaps?)
> >
> > Strangely, either parenthesising the argument expression to the address
> operand ("&(array[i].data[0])") or removing the final index expression
> ("&array[i].data") "fixes" the problem.
> >
> > I've spelunked through the AST (identical under both); the liveness and
> escape analysis (different); the parse tree (different); and the go asm
> (different).  Frankly, my gc-fu is very weak and I don't really know what
> I'm looking for.
> >
> > I assume that the root cause is that we were violating some sort of
> liveness or escape policy, but I can't figure out what it would be (or why
> minor syntactic changes "fix" things).  I'd be quite curious to know.
> >
> > The workaround in the real code is simple, so this isn't a huge issue,
> just a a bit of a mystery.
>
> It's a bug.  Would you mind opening an issue with this test case at
> https://golang.org/issue?  Thanks.
>
> Ian
>

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