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Keith Randall 38dee12dea cmd/compile: zero ambiguously live variables at VARKILLs
At VARKILLs, zero a variable if it is ambiguously live.
After the VARKILL anything this variable references
might be collected. If it were to become live again later,
the GC will see references to already-collected objects.

We don't know a variable is ambiguously live until very
late in compilation (after lowering, register allocation, ...),
so it is hard to generate the code in an arch-independent way.
We also have to be careful not to clobber any registers.
Fortunately, this almost never happens so performance is ~irrelevant.

There are only 2 instances where this triggers in the stdlib.

Fixes #20029

Change-Id: Ia9585a91d7b823fad4a9d141d954464cc7af31f4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/41076
Run-TryBot: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
2017-04-20 23:47:43 +00:00