From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:15:59 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Conversion from array to slices should work like assignment:
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2009-11-06~1737
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=625866a9779d290d6617730091d45b9d3c0ae5c7;p=gostls13.git

Conversion from array to slices should work like assignment:
you should be able to convert a pointer to an array to a
slice, you should not be able to convert an array to a slice.
Currently 6g works the other way around.

R=ken,rsc
DELTA=17  (17 added, 0 deleted, 0 changed)
OCL=28033
CL=28067
---

diff --git a/test/bugs/bug146.go b/test/bugs/bug146.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3095d2691b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/bugs/bug146.go
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// errchk $G $D/$F.go
+
+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package main
+
+func main() {
+	type Slice []byte;
+	a := [...]byte{ 0 };
+	b := Slice(&a);		// This should be OK.
+	c := Slice(a);		// ERROR "invalid"
+}
diff --git a/test/golden.out b/test/golden.out
index a3ab91b213..36217cac37 100644
--- a/test/golden.out
+++ b/test/golden.out
@@ -111,6 +111,13 @@ bugs/bug140.go:6: syntax error near L1
 bugs/bug140.go:7: syntax error near L2
 BUG should compile
 
+=========== bugs/bug146.go
+BUG: errchk: bugs/bug146.go:9: missing expected error: 'invalid'
+errchk: bugs/bug146.go: unmatched error messages:
+==================================================
+bugs/bug146.go:8: invalid conversion: *[1]uint8 to Slice
+==================================================
+
 =========== fixedbugs/bug016.go
 fixedbugs/bug016.go:7: constant -3 overflows uint