With the gc toolchain apparently
var s *string
_ = *s
is enough to panic with a nil pointer dereference. The gccgo compiler
will simply discard the dereference, which I think is a reasonable and
acceptable optimization. Change the tests to use an exported variable
instead. The tests are not currently run, but they will be with a
later patch to gotools.
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/46450
From-SVN: r249562
