gccgo internal compiler error on case aStruct{}

[bz2]

Compiling a switch with a struct literal in a case statement hits a gccgo internal compiler errror.

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ gccgo --version
gccgo (Ubuntu 4.9.3-0ubuntu4) 4.9.3

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

Ubuntu 14.04 PPC64el.

What did you do?

http://play.golang.org/p/70E3YlrAYG

Reduced test case from:

https://github.com/juju/charmstore/blob/a19f96921f585203d9d9d45e0dad5987d35da8c8/internal/v5/api.go#L358

What did you expect to see?

$ go run bug.go
As expected

What did you see instead?

$ gccgo-go run bug.go
# command-line-arguments
In function ‘main.main’:
go1: internal compiler error: in fold_binary_loc, at fold-const.c:10124

[ianlancetaylor]

Thanks for the bug report. This is already fixed in GCC 5.

[bz2]

Thanks. Google let me down on finding an existing bug against 4.9 then.