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by pcwalton 3958 days ago
Looks like a register allocation bug, which is the kind of thing that can only trigger in specific circumstances.

It looks like the Go compilers are especially vulnerable to this because individual AST nodes have to allocate registers, which would not be a problem if they used a more traditional IR.

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There's work underway to implement the SSA form for amd64 in 1.6.