built-in function print() cannot be defer'ed

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by echochamber:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

% cat defertest.go
package main

func main() {
    defer print("foo\n");
    print("bar\n");
}
% 8g defertest.go
defertest.go:4: fatal error: cgen_proc: unknown call EMPTY
%

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

File defertest.8 should be created, with no console output.
Instead, it doesn't compile, as shown above.

What is your $GOOS?  $GOARCH?

linux/386

Which revision are you sync'ed to?  (hg log -l 1)

r4067

Please provide any additional information below.

Perhaps the 'bootstrapping' functions such as print() cannot
be defer'ed, but it isn't on the doc.

[rsc]

Comment 1:

This is a lapse in documentation.
You can still defer fmt.Print.

Owner changed to r...@golang.org.

Status changed to Accepted.

[rsc]

Comment 2:

Labels changed: added documentation.

[rsc]

Comment 3:

We'll make this work.

Labels changed: added packagechange, removed documentation.

Owner changed to r...@golang.org.

[rsc]

Comment 4:

This issue was closed by revision a186b77.

Status changed to Fixed.

Merged into issue #-.