The Go frontend was incorrectly accepting duplicate variable names in a tuple assignment, as in "a, a := 0, 0". This is http://golang.org/issue/8436. This patch from Chris Manghane corrects this error. Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
Ian
diff -r 217b844de764 go/parse.cc --- a/go/parse.cc Thu Oct 16 17:02:58 2014 -0700 +++ b/go/parse.cc Fri Oct 17 17:40:43 2014 -0700 @@ -2088,6 +2088,9 @@ Typed_identifier_list til; til.push_back(Typed_identifier(name, NULL, location)); + std::set<std::string> uniq_idents; + uniq_idents.insert(name); + // We've seen one identifier. If we see a comma now, this could be // "a, *p = 1, 2". if (this->peek_token()->is_op(OPERATOR_COMMA)) @@ -2102,6 +2105,7 @@ std::string id = token->identifier(); bool is_id_exported = token->is_identifier_exported(); Location id_location = token->location(); + std::pair<std::set<std::string>::iterator, bool> ins; token = this->advance_token(); if (!token->is_op(OPERATOR_COMMA)) @@ -2109,6 +2113,10 @@ if (token->is_op(OPERATOR_COLONEQ)) { id = this->gogo_->pack_hidden_name(id, is_id_exported); + ins = uniq_idents.insert(id); + if (!ins.second && !Gogo::is_sink_name(id)) + error_at(id_location, "multiple assignments to %s", + Gogo::message_name(id).c_str()); til.push_back(Typed_identifier(id, NULL, location)); } else @@ -2119,6 +2127,10 @@ } id = this->gogo_->pack_hidden_name(id, is_id_exported); + ins = uniq_idents.insert(id); + if (!ins.second && !Gogo::is_sink_name(id)) + error_at(id_location, "multiple assignments to %s", + Gogo::message_name(id).c_str()); til.push_back(Typed_identifier(id, NULL, location)); }