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;