OOM when trying to find nonexistent struct member

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by fish@freigeist.org:

The example should be pretty self-explanatory: http://play.golang.org/p/u5_eyPkjNs

Happens on go1.1 installed via gvm on Ubuntu 12.04 as well as on play.golang.org

[remyoudompheng]

Comment 1:

Looks like a duplicate of issue #2556 and issue #5173;

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Comment 2 by fish@freigeist.org:

I might be wrong, but for me it looks different:
The other issues are about recursively calling String() (via Printf) from String().
In this issue there is no recursion within the my code as far as I see it.
frobnitz from #go-nuts on freenode came up with a even simpler example:
http://play.golang.org/p/ghjEf5kfAG

[rsc]

Comment 3:

In the http://play.golang.org/p/**ghjEf5kfAG<http://play.golang.org/p/ghjEf5kfAG>;
example,
the struct member exists (is non-nil): it is set at line 13. The definition
of embedding is that MyDoer automatically gets a method like
func (d *MyDoer) Do() {
   d.Doer.Do()
}
and when you call d.Do, it calls d.Doer.Do, and since d.Doer == d, that
calls d.Do, etc.
Russ

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Comment 4:

Status changed to Duplicate.

Merged into issue #2556.