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cmd/compile: "cannot use _ as value" errors initializing blank fields in struct literal #38905

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mdempsky opened this issue May 6, 2020 · 3 comments
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mdempsky commented May 6, 2020

Following up on #38690, this code is valid and accepted by go/types, but cmd/compile fails to accept it:

package p

type t struct{ _ u }
type u [10]int

func f(x int) t   { return t{u{1 / x, 1 % x}} }
func g(p *int) t  { return t{u{*p}} }
func h(s []int) t { return t{u{s[0]}} }

These are expressions where candiscard(value) returns false.

Note that only one error message is printed, but that's because we hit a Fatalf after the error (use go tool compile -d panic to see it). You can also comment out some of the functions or shuffle their order to see that any of them alone triggers the failure.

Fails to compile in Go 1.14 too, so not a regression.

/cc @cuonglm

@mdempsky mdempsky added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label May 6, 2020
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mdempsky commented May 6, 2020

It looks like one possible fix is to have splitnode return nblank whenever var_ == nblank.

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mdempsky commented May 6, 2020

Slightly better test case that provides better coverage of splitnode:

package p

type t struct{ _ u }
type u [10]struct{ f int }

func f(x int) t   { return t{u{{1 / x}, {1 % x}}} }
func g(p *int) t  { return t{u{{*p}}} }
func h(s []int) t { return t{u{{s[0]}}} }

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Change https://golang.org/cl/232617 mentions this issue: cmd/compile: another fix initializing blank fields in struct literal

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