by christophe.poucet:

Before filing a bug, please check whether it has been fixed since
the latest release: run "hg pull -u" and retry what you did to
reproduce the problem.  Thanks.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
cat > test.go <<EOF
package main

type Broken Broken

func foo() Broken {
  return foo;
}

func main() {
  print("hello");
}
EOF
2.
6g test.go
test.go:3: fatal error: dowidth any
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The error message is very unintuitive.

What is your $GOOS=linux?  $GOARCH=amd64?


Which revision are you sync'ed to?  (hg log -l 1)


Please provide any additional information below.