This patch by Chris Manghane changes the Go frontend to not make temporaries for constant operands in binary expressions. This fixes https://golang.org/issue/12616 . Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
Ian
Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE =================================================================== --- gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (revision 228576) +++ gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -651e71a729e5dcbd9dc14c1b59b6eff05bfe3d26 +a4bcd319d98ddc52b3e7d16ec87d92aad868ab05 The first line of this file holds the git revision number of the last merge done from the gofrontend repository. Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.cc =================================================================== --- gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.cc (revision 228306) +++ gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.cc (working copy) @@ -5200,13 +5200,13 @@ Binary_expression::do_flatten(Gogo* gogo || (is_idiv_op && (gogo->check_divide_by_zero() || gogo->check_divide_overflow()))) { - if (!this->left_->is_variable()) + if (!this->left_->is_variable() && !this->left_->is_constant()) { temp = Statement::make_temporary(NULL, this->left_, loc); inserter->insert(temp); this->left_ = Expression::make_temporary_reference(temp, loc); } - if (!this->right_->is_variable()) + if (!this->right_->is_variable() && !this->right_->is_constant()) { temp = Statement::make_temporary(NULL, this->right_, loc);