What should signal.Notify do when asked to notify on an uncatchable signal. The method does not return an error, and panic would be incompatible with existing code which is happy that those signals are uncatchable.

the channel c just won't receive any notifications, and i think that's enough.
panic will make it incompatible with existing code, for example, might just
list all the signals there.

How about a compile error?

It could be the potential problem when developers aren't aware of it.

That cannot be a compile error. The function is being called with correctly typed arguments. The compiler does not enforce library API usage concerns.

In any case, making this an error of any kind is a backwards incompatible change, as was explained by @davecheney and @minux already. Such changes are disallowed by the Go 1 compatibility promise.

More in the realm of possibility is adding go vet checks.

Thanks @cespare and the suggestion is nice 😃

It's not a big deal and every developer should know about it actually. But there's alway someone asking the question like "why can't I catch it even though I have add it in Notify". Maybe go vet or Go 2 could help to avoid the incorrect usage of golang. BTW, I can't open an issue in golang/tools and please help.

Issues about the whole Go project should be filed here.
(Including golang/go, golang/tools, and other sub-repos.)