The Go language has a new type, rune, which is currently an alias for int. In the future it will be an alias for int32. This type represents a Unicode character. Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
Ian
diff -r b1a5c9a0b9ff go/gogo.cc --- a/go/gogo.cc Wed Oct 26 21:55:17 2011 -0700 +++ b/go/gogo.cc Fri Oct 28 15:04:19 2011 -0700 @@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ Named_object* byte_type = this->declare_type("byte", loc); byte_type->set_type_value(uint8_type); + // "rune" is an alias for "int". + Named_object* rune_type = this->declare_type("rune", loc); + rune_type->set_type_value(int_type); + this->add_named_type(Type::make_integer_type("uintptr", true, pointer_size, RUNTIME_TYPE_KIND_UINTPTR));