Go patch committed: Fix unsafe.Sizeof for named structs

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Thu Jun 7 06:35:00 GMT 2012


Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:49:56PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> This patch to the Go frontend fixes an embarrassing and serious bug in
>> which unsafe.Sizeof returns the wrong value for a named struct that
>> has fields that are themselves named structs.  Bootstrapped and ran Go
>> testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.  Committed to mainline and 4.7
>> branch.
>
> Note that the 4.7 branch is frozen now and all changes need RM acks.

Sorry, didn't realize.  Hope this one is OK.  It fixes a serious bug and
should not affect bootstrap.

Ian



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