This patch to the Go compiler avoids a crash if a tracked field is referenced in the initializer for a global variable. Bootstrapped on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
Ian
diff -r 879fac2f2103 go/expressions.cc --- a/go/expressions.cc Sun Dec 02 22:55:02 2012 -0800 +++ b/go/expressions.cc Sun Dec 02 23:19:27 2012 -0800 @@ -10651,7 +10651,8 @@ // them if they are not referenced. The effect is that the only // strings, indicating field references, that will wind up in the // executable will be those for functions that are actually needed. - function->func_value()->set_in_unique_section(); + if (function != NULL) + function->func_value()->set_in_unique_section(); var->set_in_unique_section(); return this;
