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cmd/compile: comparison of pointers to zero sized values is inconsistent #52772

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@ngolin

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

$ go version
go version go1.18.1 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes.

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

go env Output
$ go env
GO111MODULE="on"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOEXPERIMENT=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOINSECURE=""
GOOS="darwin"
GOPROXY="https://goproxy.cn"
GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.18.1/libexec"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.google.cn"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.18.1/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.18.1"
GCCGO="gccgo"
GOAMD64="v1"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/dev/null"
GOWORK=""
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -arch x86_64 -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/2b/d9_jv6cs1bl2dqqblnzq4_8c0000gp/T/go-build2756878695=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

Given var s1 struct{} and var s2 struct{}, the result of &s1 == &s2 is inconsistent:
the following snippet yielding false:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	var s1 struct{}
	var s2 struct{}
	fmt.Println(&s1 == &s2) // false
}

while this snippet yielding true:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"unsafe"
)

func main() {
	var s1 struct{}
	var s2 struct{}
	fmt.Println(unsafe.Pointer(&s1), unsafe.Pointer(&s2))
	fmt.Println(&s1 == &s2) // true
}

What did you expect to see?

The results in two circumstances should be the same. Both of them should be true.

What did you see instead?

They are not. Quite confusing for newbies.

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