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+// $G $D/$F.go && $L $F.$A && (! ./$A.out || echo BUG: should fail)
+
+// 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
+
+import "unsafe"
+
+func f([]byte) {
+	panic("unreachable");
+}
+
+var dummy [512<<20]byte;	// give us a big address space
+func main() {
+	// the test only tests what we intend to test
+	// if dummy starts in the first 256 MB of memory.
+	// otherwise there might not be anything mapped
+	// at the address that might be accidentally
+	// dereferenced below.
+	if uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&dummy)) > 256<<20 {
+		panic("dummy too far out");
+	}
+
+	// The problem here is that indexing into p[] with a large
+	// enough index can jump out of the unmapped section
+	// at the beginning of memory and into valid memory.
+	//
+	// To avoid needing a check on every slice beyond the
+	// usual len and cap, we require the *array -> slice
+	// conversion to do the check.
+	var p *[1<<30]byte = nil;
+	f(p);	// should crash
+}