From 625866a9779d290d6617730091d45b9d3c0ae5c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:15:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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
---
 test/bugs/bug146.go | 14 ++++++++++++++
 test/golden.out     |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/bugs/bug146.go

diff --git a/test/bugs/bug146.go b/test/bugs/bug146.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3095d2691b4
--- /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 a3ab91b2130..36217cac378 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