This patch to the Go frontend by Cherry Zhang changes write barrier
generation so that for string, slice, and interface values we do
assignments field by field instead of using typedmemmove.
Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.  Committed
to mainline.

Ian
Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE
===================================================================
--- gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE     (revision 272045)
+++ gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE     (working copy)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-9df825b5f142ac2b6f48a8dac94fcff740acd411
+b79e9e79fddc9040ab58c7c518eb08454f308def
 
 The first line of this file holds the git revision number of the last
 merge done from the gofrontend repository.
Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.h
===================================================================
--- gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.h     (revision 272043)
+++ gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.h     (working copy)
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ class Expression
 
   // Make an expression that evaluates to some characteristic of an string.
   // For simplicity, the enum values must match the field indexes in the
-  // underlying struct.
+  // underlying struct.  This returns an lvalue.
   enum String_info
     {
       // The underlying data in the string.
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ class Expression
 
   // Make an expression that evaluates to some characteristic of a
   // slice.  For simplicity, the enum values must match the field indexes
-  // in the underlying struct.
+  // in the underlying struct.  This returns an lvalue.
   enum Slice_info
     {
       // The underlying data of the slice.
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ class Expression
 
   // Make an expression that evaluates to some characteristic of an
   // interface.  For simplicity, the enum values must match the field indexes
-  // in the underlying struct.
+  // in the underlying struct.  This returns an lvalue.
   enum Interface_info
     {
       // The type descriptor of an empty interface.
Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/wb.cc
===================================================================
--- gcc/go/gofrontend/wb.cc     (revision 271822)
+++ gcc/go/gofrontend/wb.cc     (working copy)
@@ -822,6 +822,7 @@ Gogo::assign_with_write_barrier(Function
   Type* unsafe_ptr_type = Type::make_pointer_type(Type::make_void_type());
   lhs = Expression::make_unsafe_cast(unsafe_ptr_type, lhs, loc);
 
+  Type* uintptr_type = Type::lookup_integer_type("uintptr");
   Expression* call;
   switch (type->base()->classification())
     {
@@ -837,17 +838,125 @@ Gogo::assign_with_write_barrier(Function
     case Type::TYPE_CHANNEL:
       {
        // These types are all represented by a single pointer.
-       Type* uintptr_type = Type::lookup_integer_type("uintptr");
        rhs = Expression::make_unsafe_cast(uintptr_type, rhs, loc);
        call = Runtime::make_call(Runtime::GCWRITEBARRIER, loc, 2, lhs, rhs);
       }
       break;
 
     case Type::TYPE_STRING:
-    case Type::TYPE_STRUCT:
-    case Type::TYPE_ARRAY:
+      {
+        // Assign the length field directly.
+        Expression* llen =
+          Expression::make_string_info(indir->copy(),
+                                       Expression::STRING_INFO_LENGTH,
+                                       loc);
+        Expression* rlen =
+          Expression::make_string_info(rhs,
+                                       Expression::STRING_INFO_LENGTH,
+                                       loc);
+        Statement* as = Statement::make_assignment(llen, rlen, loc);
+        inserter->insert(as);
+
+        // Assign the data field with a write barrier.
+        lhs =
+          Expression::make_string_info(indir->copy(),
+                                       Expression::STRING_INFO_DATA,
+                                       loc);
+        rhs =
+          Expression::make_string_info(rhs,
+                                       Expression::STRING_INFO_DATA,
+                                       loc);
+        assign = Statement::make_assignment(lhs, rhs, loc);
+        lhs = Expression::make_unary(OPERATOR_AND, lhs, loc);
+        rhs = Expression::make_unsafe_cast(uintptr_type, rhs, loc);
+        call = Runtime::make_call(Runtime::GCWRITEBARRIER, loc, 2, lhs, rhs);
+      }
+      break;
+
     case Type::TYPE_INTERFACE:
       {
+        // Assign the first field directly.
+        // The first field is either a type descriptor or a method table.
+        // Type descriptors are either statically created, or created by
+        // the reflect package. For the latter the reflect package keeps
+        // all references.
+        // Method tables are either statically created or persistently
+        // allocated.
+        // In all cases they don't need a write barrier.
+        Expression* ltab =
+          Expression::make_interface_info(indir->copy(),
+                                          Expression::INTERFACE_INFO_METHODS,
+                                          loc);
+        Expression* rtab =
+          Expression::make_interface_info(rhs,
+                                          Expression::INTERFACE_INFO_METHODS,
+                                          loc);
+        Statement* as = Statement::make_assignment(ltab, rtab, loc);
+        inserter->insert(as);
+
+        // Assign the data field with a write barrier.
+        lhs =
+          Expression::make_interface_info(indir->copy(),
+                                          Expression::INTERFACE_INFO_OBJECT,
+                                          loc);
+        rhs =
+          Expression::make_interface_info(rhs,
+                                          Expression::INTERFACE_INFO_OBJECT,
+                                          loc);
+        assign = Statement::make_assignment(lhs, rhs, loc);
+        lhs = Expression::make_unary(OPERATOR_AND, lhs, loc);
+        rhs = Expression::make_unsafe_cast(uintptr_type, rhs, loc);
+        call = Runtime::make_call(Runtime::GCWRITEBARRIER, loc, 2, lhs, rhs);
+      }
+      break;
+
+    case Type::TYPE_ARRAY:
+      if (type->is_slice_type())
+       {
+          // Assign the lenth fields directly.
+          Expression* llen =
+            Expression::make_slice_info(indir->copy(),
+                                        Expression::SLICE_INFO_LENGTH,
+                                        loc);
+          Expression* rlen =
+            Expression::make_slice_info(rhs,
+                                        Expression::SLICE_INFO_LENGTH,
+                                        loc);
+          Statement* as = Statement::make_assignment(llen, rlen, loc);
+          inserter->insert(as);
+
+          // Assign the capacity fields directly.
+          Expression* lcap =
+            Expression::make_slice_info(indir->copy(),
+                                        Expression::SLICE_INFO_CAPACITY,
+                                        loc);
+          Expression* rcap =
+            Expression::make_slice_info(rhs,
+                                        Expression::SLICE_INFO_CAPACITY,
+                                        loc);
+          as = Statement::make_assignment(lcap, rcap, loc);
+          inserter->insert(as);
+
+          // Assign the data field with a write barrier.
+          lhs =
+            Expression::make_slice_info(indir->copy(),
+                                        Expression::SLICE_INFO_VALUE_POINTER,
+                                        loc);
+          rhs =
+            Expression::make_slice_info(rhs,
+                                        Expression::SLICE_INFO_VALUE_POINTER,
+                                        loc);
+          assign = Statement::make_assignment(lhs, rhs, loc);
+          lhs = Expression::make_unary(OPERATOR_AND, lhs, loc);
+          rhs = Expression::make_unsafe_cast(uintptr_type, rhs, loc);
+          call = Runtime::make_call(Runtime::GCWRITEBARRIER, loc, 2, lhs, rhs);
+          break;
+        }
+      // fallthrough
+
+    case Type::TYPE_STRUCT:
+      {
+        // TODO: split assignments for small struct/array?
        rhs = Expression::make_unary(OPERATOR_AND, rhs, loc);
        rhs->unary_expression()->set_does_not_escape();
        call = Runtime::make_call(Runtime::TYPEDMEMMOVE, loc, 3,

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