gc compiler error: does not accept legal string to []byte conversion #1709
Description
6g test2.go && 6l test2.6 && 6.out
test2.go:6: cannot use ts (type Ts) as type string in function argument
package main
func main() {
type Ts string
var ts Ts
_ = []byte(ts)
}
This code is accepted by gccgo; it is legal according to the spec, ts is of string type
(as opposed to type string):
"Converting a value of a string type to []byte (or []uint8) yields a slice whose
successive elements are the bytes of the string."