gccgo: method invocations do not auto-dereference pointer types

[griesemer]

$ cat x.go
package main
import "os"
func main() { f(&os.Stdin) }
func f(x **os.File) { x.Close() }

$ gccgo x.go
$

gccgo compiles this program without error. However, Close is not in the method set of
**os.File.

$ gotype x.go
x.go:4:23: invalid operation: x (variable of type **os.File) has no field or method Close

This is the gccgo issue for the corresponding gc issue #6366.

[ianlancetaylor]

Comment 1:

Owner changed to @paranoiacblack.

[ianlancetaylor]

Comment 2:

Fixed on tip by https://golang.org/cl/137730043 .

Status changed to Fixed.