From: Sebastien Binet <seb.binet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:05:32 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: simple fix to not have 'exp/eval' panic in presence of slices like s[:2]
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2011-01-06~38
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=33145c48682523177ac1cf62ee6b86eed680fffa;p=gostls13.git

simple fix to not have 'exp/eval' panic in presence of slices like s[:2]

R=golang-dev, gri
CC=binet, golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3782044
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diff --git a/src/pkg/exp/eval/expr.go b/src/pkg/exp/eval/expr.go
index 66adeef957..f633aea390 100644
--- a/src/pkg/exp/eval/expr.go
+++ b/src/pkg/exp/eval/expr.go
@@ -595,9 +595,15 @@ func (a *exprCompiler) compile(x ast.Expr, callCtx bool) *expr {
 		return ei.compileIndexExpr(l, r)
 
 	case *ast.SliceExpr:
-		var hi *expr
+		var lo, hi *expr
 		arr := a.compile(x.X, false)
-		lo := a.compile(x.Index, false)
+		if x.Index == nil {
+			// beginning was omitted, so we need to provide it
+			ei := &exprInfo{a.compiler, x.Pos()}
+			lo = ei.compileIntLit("0")
+		} else {
+			lo = a.compile(x.Index, false)
+		}
 		if x.End == nil {
 			// End was omitted, so we need to compute len(x.X)
 			ei := &exprInfo{a.compiler, x.Pos()}