From 6540ddba79e0f4286e5f8899691d9c29677222a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@gcc.gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:53:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't crash on type switch of nil.

From-SVN: r170455
---
 gcc/go/gofrontend/statements.cc | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gcc/go/gofrontend/statements.cc b/gcc/go/gofrontend/statements.cc
index 45e45a381b7..629fdd81615 100644
--- a/gcc/go/gofrontend/statements.cc
+++ b/gcc/go/gofrontend/statements.cc
@@ -3905,10 +3905,13 @@ Type_switch_statement::do_lower(Gogo*, Block* enclosing)
     {
       // Doing a type switch on a non-interface type.  Should we issue
       // a warning for this case?
-      // descriptor_temp = DESCRIPTOR
       Expression* lhs = Expression::make_temporary_reference(descriptor_temp,
 							     loc);
-      Expression* rhs = Expression::make_type_descriptor(val_type, loc);
+      Expression* rhs;
+      if (val_type->is_nil_type())
+	rhs = Expression::make_nil(loc);
+      else
+	rhs = Expression::make_type_descriptor(val_type, loc);
       Statement* s = Statement::make_assignment(lhs, rhs, loc);
       b->add_statement(s);
     }